Many years -- decades -- ago, I discovered that when I was stuck on what I was writing, where the story needed to go next, taking a walk in my neighborhood yielded the answer by the time I came back home.
Elisha Grey does something similar -- he likes to take rolled taino out to smoke and think about a case. If Kiara Ptolmai is with him, he will start to bounce questions off of her, which will result in more questions, and together, they arrive at an approach.
In our modern culture, the idea of taking a break where we're not engaged in task oriented behavior is at best suspect, at worst anathema. This pressure is most likely from the idea that productivity is about how many moments in the day one is "working".
For the creative mind -- and there are many professions that rely upon creative thinking and innovation -- this proscription against having "free" or "down" time actually prevents the very creativity that is sought.
For the creative mind, no time is free, and none of it is down.: even though it might look like it to a passerby who sees someone sitting, smoking or drinking coffee, gazing out into the sky, saying nothing.
This kind of rest is as important as sleep. And no, sleep is not rest. They are two different things. There is time in the day for both of them, regardless of what one's been told to think. All tasks do not need to be completed in a single day. Taking care of oneself, and giving space to the ability to think creatively, does need to happen daily to give fulfillment.
Elisha Grey does something similar -- he likes to take rolled taino out to smoke and think about a case. If Kiara Ptolmai is with him, he will start to bounce questions off of her, which will result in more questions, and together, they arrive at an approach.
In our modern culture, the idea of taking a break where we're not engaged in task oriented behavior is at best suspect, at worst anathema. This pressure is most likely from the idea that productivity is about how many moments in the day one is "working".
For the creative mind -- and there are many professions that rely upon creative thinking and innovation -- this proscription against having "free" or "down" time actually prevents the very creativity that is sought.
For the creative mind, no time is free, and none of it is down.: even though it might look like it to a passerby who sees someone sitting, smoking or drinking coffee, gazing out into the sky, saying nothing.
This kind of rest is as important as sleep. And no, sleep is not rest. They are two different things. There is time in the day for both of them, regardless of what one's been told to think. All tasks do not need to be completed in a single day. Taking care of oneself, and giving space to the ability to think creatively, does need to happen daily to give fulfillment.