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First, I'm happy to report that after six weeks or so of being back on EMpowerPlus vitamins and the rest of my alternative medicine regime, I am feeling much, much better than I was doing this past summer during my adventures in pharmaceuticalandia.
Second, I am up to week four in my second attempt at working my way through Julia Cameron's course, The Artist's Way, and this week I am not allowed to read! No novels, no interwebs (although I'm cheating a little and still answering email), no magazines, no nothin'. Lucky for me, this is an off week in my book review schedule. But I've gone 36 hours now without reading. And you know what? This is hard. Like... Barbie math hard. I had just been thoughtfully gifted with a copy of Brisingr the night before Julia Cameron sprung this "reading deprivation" thing on me, after blowing through the first two books in the Eragon Inheritance series in two weeks. And I have the third Sookie Stackhouse book due to arrive at the library, being held just for me, any day now. Not to mention the reiki homework reading I'm supposed to be doing this week, the fact that I haven't done a book review for The Hipster Bookclub in months, and my next Our Chart book review is due a week from Friday.
Not reading when you love to read as much as I do sucks, but it's already working. I finally sat down yesterday and started jotting down notes on my next kid's story. And I've been itching to get back to work on the vampire erotica story I started over the summer. Still, I am dying to pick up a book. But I won't! I'm giving this five days instead of the full seven, due to my desire not to stress myself out next week about the reiki homework and the book review, but I'll be really proud of myself if I make it that long without picking up a novel or reading all the enticingly titled new blogs on Our Chart this week. (Barring the ones I have to copyedit this week, because I need the money too much to take the week off from doing that.)
I can go five days without reading, no matter how much it sucks! I am totally committed to seeing this course through this time around, and doing everything in my power to get back on my feet creatively. I'm going about it as though my life depended upon it, because it kind of does.
Second, I am up to week four in my second attempt at working my way through Julia Cameron's course, The Artist's Way, and this week I am not allowed to read! No novels, no interwebs (although I'm cheating a little and still answering email), no magazines, no nothin'. Lucky for me, this is an off week in my book review schedule. But I've gone 36 hours now without reading. And you know what? This is hard. Like... Barbie math hard. I had just been thoughtfully gifted with a copy of Brisingr the night before Julia Cameron sprung this "reading deprivation" thing on me, after blowing through the first two books in the Eragon Inheritance series in two weeks. And I have the third Sookie Stackhouse book due to arrive at the library, being held just for me, any day now. Not to mention the reiki homework reading I'm supposed to be doing this week, the fact that I haven't done a book review for The Hipster Bookclub in months, and my next Our Chart book review is due a week from Friday.
Not reading when you love to read as much as I do sucks, but it's already working. I finally sat down yesterday and started jotting down notes on my next kid's story. And I've been itching to get back to work on the vampire erotica story I started over the summer. Still, I am dying to pick up a book. But I won't! I'm giving this five days instead of the full seven, due to my desire not to stress myself out next week about the reiki homework and the book review, but I'll be really proud of myself if I make it that long without picking up a novel or reading all the enticingly titled new blogs on Our Chart this week. (Barring the ones I have to copyedit this week, because I need the money too much to take the week off from doing that.)
I can go five days without reading, no matter how much it sucks! I am totally committed to seeing this course through this time around, and doing everything in my power to get back on my feet creatively. I'm going about it as though my life depended upon it, because it kind of does.