Is reading enough to spark creativity?

[J. T. SHEA]

Dear Jaya,

Story.


You are a prisoner in a thirty foot long by twenty foot room.
You are sitting in a black over-sized chair exactly in the middle.
You suddenly became conscious, easily slipping out of the arm rests.
A man enters handing you a mattress roll and thick blanket removing the chair.
You and he say nothing. He slides the chair into the hall closing the door behind him.
The formless room is marble, a row of five dull globes on the ceiling provide dusky light.

What happened?
Why are you there?
Who is this other person?
What's the last thing you remember.
Can you still remember your own name.
Are you able to sleep that night without a pillow.

But you were only a week later paying the cable company. Aren't they overreacting just a little? Should've read the fine print...

[esmith1]

I have to agree with some of the other responses, in saying that we all have a creative bug in us. I actually think that sometimes the TV, cellphone, Ipod, etc. can impede on your natural creative instinct. I often have to turn away from TV, cellphone, etc. to get into my creative mode. Just "daydreaming" or reading other books/material can help you to brainstorm. All writers, get to a point where they may feel like there is nothing left, but keep writing, the ideas and creativeness will come back!