The Artist's Way: Reading Deprivation
So this week's squicky task for the creativity is a reading deprivation--no reading. Period, end quote.
Since I've already practically given up my only TV (I've watched way less than the one episode a day I allowed myself) in a way I felt like I've already done a pretty serious deprivation--which has been helpful!
She describes this as an enforced fast so your mind HAS to fill the void, though.
I'm planning to give myself a little slack for reading, but add an equally important stream of input to the ban: music.
This will be a complete ban.
When I was writing Letters to My Nemesis, I knew that the mix of first-person-blog POV was going to be a tricky one. I decided in advance to not let myself listen to music while writing, at least not for a while. I listened to a couple of pump-up theme songs and THEN started actually writing.
I'm very auditory--music is a stream of information that occupies me so much I don't listen to new songs while trying to do something else.
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I'm also going to be limiting my online-reading drastically. I don't include the chummy LJ blogs that are more like correspondence than information. But, I may be catching up on those sporadically, since my F-List Page is a bugbear of so many different things.
Feel free to comment here it you want to bring my attention to something!
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