I keep getting more pieces of the puzzle for revising this book. How to accomplish one major thing, how to fix a crucial scene, how to deepen other scenes. These insights don’t come when I’m at the computer. They come when I’m walking, or coloring, or meditating quietly after journaling.

I think I would’ve gotten this book done much faster if I’d spent more time walking, meditating quietly, and coloring pictures with my kids, but I fell into the trap of thinking that the work I do consists of sitting down and typing. And that is true, to a point. But there’s also a creative process that’s largely unconscious that has to have opportunity to work.

That creative process feeds on creative and meditative activity. Walking is a form of moving meditation; it gives the body something to do and requires just enough attention to occupy the busy mind and allow insights to surface where they can be heard instead of being drowned in the mental clamor.

Sometimes, it pays to make haste slowly.