Writers: To Accomplish Something, You've Got to Do Nothing

If you want to be creative and productive, you need to stop trying so hard.

I love writing. I love all the things I learn through the research. I love what’s revealed about myself as the words fly out my fingers. And if I’ve learned anything helpful about this craft, it’s that we writers don’t know when or how to stop. 

We don’t know how to do nothing. 

But if we don’t do nothing now and then, writing consumes us. It ceases to em…