For years, writers have understood that walking gets their creative juices flowing.

Current research shows walking supports creative thinking and idea generation.

Moderate-paced walking produces benefits whether you do it indoors or outdoors.

A pleasant stroll keeps our waistline trim and our brain in tip-top shape as well.

Researcher Christian Rominger and teammates determined that walking is linked to more creative verbal thinking, confirming the results of a study done 10 years earlier by Oppezzo and Schwartz, who tied moving to creativity. This is unlikely to surprise anyone who is a fan of author biographies—writers regularly report that they walk to get their creative juices flowing, perhaps to overcome problems with plot or........

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