Reading slows writing down, but you have to do it.

To get the scene I’m writing correct I had to read a book on Tea. It took effort and time away from the writing. Then for the next page I had to read a book on the British Navy in the eighteen hundreds and torpedoes. I’m losing hours of writing time having to read books just to write a page or two, but those pages will be accurate.

It all makes sense when the title of the book is “There’s a Torpedo in my Teacup”.

Write on, draw on.  Professor Voltage