These publishing experts are grateful for creative rest

The holiday season is in full swing in the United States, and no doubt many of you are feeling stretched thin and stressed out.

We're not going to pretend that finding time to rest is easy — after all, if it were, you would already be doing it — but it's not impossible.

Joanna Penn and Orna Ross discussed some strategies for fitting creative rest into your life (along with listing its benefits) on Penn's The Creative Penn podcast.

And Ross joined Howard Lovy of the Alliance of Independent Authors to identify seven kinds of creative rest.

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