FYI: Sleep and Drafting and Revising

If you find yourself stuck on a problem when drafting or revising, walking away and sleeping on it may be the best answer. This is advice from which I've personally profited over the years, and I've passed along to students with very little to back it up but my own experience that it works. Here's a link, via Lifehacker, which points to recent research which confirms. My Mother's advice to "Sleep on it" was right.

Steve

Sleep Boosts Creativity by 33% [Mind Hacks]

via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on 9/28/08

A Harvard sleep researcher finds that if you sleep on new ideas and information, you're 33% more likely to make connections between distantly related points. Sleep helps you make tough decisions, and solve proble