I refuse to read fiction while I am busy writing.
Other peoples ideas easily cross pollinate with your own.  

I am doing something I believe is novel by publishing the story as I am writing it.  It sort of forces me to stick to the narrative rigidly.  I do edits though.


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 That's pretty hardcore. 

 Not reading or publishing on the go? 

 Not quite novel. Charles Dickens did the same. 

 Of whom I am a big fan.  In my first piece when I mention the parochial office I think of Mr Bumble.