the mother of invention

I'm taking a little time off from writing.  Not a lot of time off:  just a couple of months. I just need to be creative in different ways for a little bit.  Like sewing kinda creative.  And re-covering old chairs kinda creative.  And cleaning up our house creative.  To the extent that you can call cleaning creative.

Some people have to write every day.  But I need breaks.  I need to paint furniture and sew and make collages.  I imagine my writing life like a bucket of water.  It fills up with...