Reading and writing

Its been awhile since I posted anything.  Life gets in the way and I was not in any particular mood to write.  I did start reading again, after many months of staying away.  I had heard, you should not read while you are writing because the lines might get blurred.  The thing is, I have been in sort of a funk lately and every time I open my laptop to write, nothing come to me.  I decided to take a break from writing and pick up reading again.  It was interesting to find that I got my spark back.  My creativity started to come, and I began to write.  I feared I would get confused between my reading and my writing, but I found that they could co-exist.  I never strayed into that uncharted territory where my book sounded like what I was reading.  I was able to distinguish between the two, and I found my love to write again.  Sometimes you need a break, but I found my break lasted to long and I ever wondered if I would pick up writing again.  I'm still in the process of waiting to hear from a publisher-which is making me impatient-but at least I know that my love of writing has been there all along; just hiding under the service