16 Tips to Minimize Emotional Eating for Writers

Writers tend to do a lot of emotional eating. We eat when we are excited or when we receive a rejection. We eat when we just finished a manuscript that took a long time to complete. Some of us even eat while we are writing, making a mess of our offices and keyboards.

But why do we eat emotionally? Emotional eating is a problem for writers for many reasons. Some of the main reasons are because the writing life is hard and lonely. Many writers feel secluded from others and cooped up, writing f...