"Sometimes, as a writer, you need to ease up on your brain. Don’t unplug it entirely. Just stop..."

“Sometimes, as a writer, you need to ease up on your brain. Don’t unplug it entirely. Just stop shaking it frantically between your hands like a piggy bank, hoping for some loose change to fall out. Clean your room. Water the plants. Give your brain a break and see what it can do with some downtime. It never fails.”

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Karuna Riazi is an online diversity advocate, essayist and overwhelmed undergrad student. Her debut novel, The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, will be released in 2017 under Simon and Schuster’s new Salaam Reads imprint.

Writer’s Care Packages from Camp NaNoWriMo and We Need Diverse Books.