rest is a weapon

Encouragement Pages-02/05/2021: For The Love Of It (Part 3)

Rest is a weapon because it allows your mind to settle! It allows you as a creative person to clear your plate as it were to focus (or refocus) on what is important.

Rest also allows you to create other things as well! It is what I like to call a hard restart–it’s a warning before you get to a point where you cannot create or won’t create. Either option is detrimental to the artist!

Take the time to rest, dear writer. The rest will do you good. I promise.

With Love & Ink,

JBHarris

Encouragement Pages-02/03/2021: For The Love Of It (Part 2)

When you lose the love of something, it is devastating. But here is one thing that I can say which reignites you love of something: rest.

As crazy as that sounds, it is true.

Burnout for artists is real. It is so essential that as a creative person that you learn how to measure your energy and know how to peter it out!

A social media mentor, Rebecca Gordon, said it this way: “Rest is a weapon.”

With Love & Ink,

JBHarris