Give Your Mind a Chance to Refresh
29th June 2016 | for Creatives | creative process, writing, inspiration/the muse, ideas, David Baldacci |
"Breaks give your mind a chance to refresh. I write multiple books at once, and I'm always thinking about them, even if I'm not at a computer. It's a habit I picked up as a litigator: You have 1,000 facts in your head, and the most important thing isn't that you know them all- it's that you crystallize them, so that you can present them clearly. Epiphanies don't occur like a spark; they're actually ideas that have been floating around in your brain for a while. By the time I sit down to write, my thoughts are well organized and come out cleanly."
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