The Connection Between Rest & Word Count
by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn Take a break. As you read these words, I will be chilling out on a beach enjoying a long-anticipated, and�dare I say it�much deserved vacation. Now, it�s true that if you follow me on social media, you may know that I was just on vacation, but here�s the sad truth. It was a working vacation. Gasp! My family and I spent a lovely week in the mountains of North Carolina in early July. We are blessed with family members who give us access to a delightful home on a secluded lake and we have taken advantage of that for seven years straight. It simply wouldn�t be summer if we didn�t go to the lake for a week. I look forward to these trips for a variety of reasons, but one big reason is because of all the reading I do while we�re there. In the six years prior to this one, I have finished a minimum of five books over the course of the week. But this year things were different. I had a book due to my editor on August 1. So, despite the fact that prio...