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Reading Deprivation Week resistance
May. 2nd, 2008 04:04 pmFor those of you who are familiar with The Artist's Way, I don't have to explain Reading Deprivation Week. For the rest of y'all, the idea is to cut out your biggest mind-blanking-time-frittering-filling-yourself-with-the-unimportant activity for a week to find out what ELSE is going on in your brain. Which is, the author theorizes for the majority of people who read books on increasing one's creativite output, reading.
I have previously given up watching tv or playing computer solitaire games (including all other minigames of the Pop Cap/Big Fish varieties (Hi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithonium and niac! Hi, spaced!)). I have even given up email and LJ for a week.
So these days I consider it a triumph that I'm checking LJ and email within a week, the only other reading I do is the comics page of the paper while I wait for my toast to pop at work, I'm not addicted to any chat interfaces or online games, I'm having trouble getting around to watching seasons of Doctor Who and Torchwood that were HANDED to me as a gift, and I only play minigames when my internet is down and I'm hoping it will come back up in a minute to check my wiki.
What am I doing? I'm thinking about my book. All the time. I mean all the time. I'm checking for new comments again on my wiki, or re-reading my own work obsessively, or I'm replaying scenes in my head. To the exclusion of doing else with my bus ride time or most of my other down cycles.
This is clearly not the best use of my creative time, as I'm not even making up much new stuff these days. Or months, in fact. I would like to be spending that energy viciously editing, or voraciously reading period source material and books on how to write descriptions that don't suck.
Or possibly doing my laundry. That situation's getting a bit urgent. More on that next post.
So how do I do Reading Deprivation Week when what I'm mindlessly reading is my own creative output and taking the book away doesn't help because I have it memorized?
I have previously given up watching tv or playing computer solitaire games (including all other minigames of the Pop Cap/Big Fish varieties (Hi,
tithonium and niac! Hi, spaced!)). I have even given up email and LJ for a week.So these days I consider it a triumph that I'm checking LJ and email within a week, the only other reading I do is the comics page of the paper while I wait for my toast to pop at work, I'm not addicted to any chat interfaces or online games, I'm having trouble getting around to watching seasons of Doctor Who and Torchwood that were HANDED to me as a gift, and I only play minigames when my internet is down and I'm hoping it will come back up in a minute to check my wiki.
What am I doing? I'm thinking about my book. All the time. I mean all the time. I'm checking for new comments again on my wiki, or re-reading my own work obsessively, or I'm replaying scenes in my head. To the exclusion of doing else with my bus ride time or most of my other down cycles.
This is clearly not the best use of my creative time, as I'm not even making up much new stuff these days. Or months, in fact. I would like to be spending that energy viciously editing, or voraciously reading period source material and books on how to write descriptions that don't suck.
Or possibly doing my laundry. That situation's getting a bit urgent. More on that next post.
So how do I do Reading Deprivation Week when what I'm mindlessly reading is my own creative output and taking the book away doesn't help because I have it memorized?
