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Take a break and percolate

Incubation is the 3rd step in the writing process

Novelist Agatha Christie believed that the best time to write was while washing the dishes.

Coffee break?
Coffee break? For decades, creative personalities have reported that their thought processes include … doing nothing.

Author Harper Lee did much of her creative thinking while golfing.

And artist Grant Wood said, “All of the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

That break — taking your mind off your project to let the back of your mind work on your project for awhile — is an important part of the creative process.

So go ahead. Take a break. Take a walk. Do the dishes. Milk a cow.

“Break,” says creativity expert Matthew May, “is the most important part of breakthrough.”

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