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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams
Hands, Drawing, Fancy
"An Interview with the “Dilbert” Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.