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As a writer, I deal with a bit of insomnia and I’m sure that most of you who are creatives deal with this as well.

My mom’s cure for insomnia was always a warm glass of milk and Windexing the windows, but in the modern day of the Internet revolution, the cure for me is to just get up and write and work.

Einstein said, “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

Sometimes in twilight after this Texas heat all day, one can experience the mysterious by putting on some good music or even a Buddhist chant CD depending on the mood, and just sit at the keyboard and write.

I encourage you to take advantage of the twilight hour and contemplate how Edison, Einstein and one of my own personal heroes Richard Feynman solved the mysterious in twilight hours.

If you’re up but you’re stuck in what you perceive is a “writing block” then put out Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” or Garcia-Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and start typing the text from the pages. Nothing will kick-start you like typing in the work of the masters.

Every summer I copy in longhand a classic book just to keep my creativity flowing, so don’t be daunted.

Write, imagine, and leave sleep for mere mortals.

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