Matthew
Matthew asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Do you read novels while you're writing one? Or do you need to focus on the narrative you're creating without being distracted or influenced by another?

Lois McMaster Bujold In and out of my brain seems to be a one-way bridge. Heavy input blocks output, and eats time for rumination, or even for long-term memory formation. Since modern media now provides an effectively infinite river of input, and I have neither infinite time nor infinite brain-space, I do have to go on a sort of self-imposed input diet while actively creating. Or put another way, I start to create when what's going on inside my head manages to be more interesting to me than all that's coming in from outside.

Naturally, this is growing harder, as modern media gets better and better at competing for people's attention, and there is easier access to way more of it.

Ta, L.

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