Well, it's the second day of my reading deprivation week, and so far I'm doing good, though a little out of sorts. I'm not sure if it's cheating, but I am reading writing books, and lots of online articles.
My reasoning is that when Julia Cameron says not to read for a week, I'm sure she didn't mean that lawyers couldn't read depositions, or students couldn't study their textbooks, or regular people couldn't read their newspapers, so as a writer, I'm reading books about writing.
I haven't read anything fiction, just the writing books and a lot of Stumbleupon.com sites.
I'm actually getting quite a lot of writing done these couple of days, a lot more than I have ever produced in the last ten years (in any two days), but I'm still not producing as much as I know I can.
Practice makes perfect though, and I know that I'm still in the early stages of planning my new writing schedule, so it would take some time to get used to it.
The morning pages are something that I'm definitely used to now. I don't think I can do without them anymore. They're my lifeline, and the place I go to when I need to write about stuff. I'm not finished with the exercises in the book, but the simple act of writing the morning pages has helped, and I will definitely come back to the rest of the exercises in the future.
For now, I'm reading to go back to writing... again. =)
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