Authors essentially work thanks to their creativity. In my previous articles, I already discussed how to improve creativity, or rather, how to improve the creative process, and what are the ingredients for creating Today, I want to discuss about creativity from another side that has nothing to do with work, quite with laziness. In the world of literature, insiders often speak about creative idleness. What is it? Idleness is rest, or to be free from burdens and duties, creative idleness is, hence, stop your writing work to allow your brain to recharge its energy and improve creativity.
Everybody knows that writing is a mental work that costs a high expenditure of energy. Writing, moreover, demands concentration, silence and inner peace. When you write steadily and daily, concentration can diminish and so also inner peace, because your mind is only focused on what you want or must write. In this case, writing can also be a stress source and when stress reaches an unbearable level, it is better to stop and rest, also sleep. Creative idleness is, hence, a way, or rather, a lifestyle that lets you retrieve your lost creativity and empower the results of your work.
Creative idleness is not a fault or a bad attitude, but a necessary thing for your career and your writing job. Authors, but even freelance writers, editors and journalists sometimes need creative laziness. This way of living often coincides with rest and sleep, but also with relaxing activities that take you away from your usual writing work. How to set a good creative idleness? It is simple: experiencing a few hours or a weekend in another place, maybe at the countryside, or taking a walk in the middle of a wood, breathing the scent of the trees and the sea, making a stop to admire fabulous landscapes next to your town or short holidays in a place you love.
All you have to do is forget your writing for a while. Creative laziness can be more effective to set you free from concerns and daily troubles, but also to resolve writer’s block, a clear symptom that onsets when your mind is too much exhausted from work. After a couple of days of creative idleness, your mind can come back to work better. You can notice this, because you feel to have more ideas and because your writing proceeds quickly with no interruption.
Creative idleness helps to develop good ideas for books, content and articles and to write in a short time. Besides idleness, creativity also needs also a good work environment, namely a silent place where you can write in peace. Noises and crowded places are, indeed, the worst enemies of your writing (and creativity). Almost all the famous writers live in quiet and noiseless places. For writers, the ideal places are countryside houses in secluded areas. If you can, move to a quiet place to write. Some places, moreover, are less polluted than urban cities and this is another factor that can improve your creativity and your writing. A poisoned brain is always less active that the toxin-free one.
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Rosalba Mancuso is the journalist, born in Sicily, who founded three online magazines in English. On Advicebooks Book Reviews, Rosalba shows her great passion for books, helping readers and book lovers choose and buy the best books she read and reviewed. She also worked as a contributor to print and online magazines and as a bilingual Italian-English writer. Here, Rosalba also offers room to authors and publishers who want to get their books reviewed through the voice of an avid reader like her. You must also know that this book review magazine lives thanks to your help. Rosalba, in fact, earns a small commission, with no cost for you, when you buy books through the affiliate links you find in her book reviews. This book review magazine is also funded by services of editorial reviews and book press releases.
