For many years I have owned a copy of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I have never worked my way through the entire book, despite having had it for ten years. Every few years I pick up the book and try it again, but it’s a twelve week program and I get distracted again.
However one thing I have kept hold of, and return to even when I’m not trying to do The Artist’s Way program, is morning pages. The theory is that you write three pages of anything, first thing every morning. You don’t read them, certainly don’t edit them, and it doesn’t matter at all wat you write. You could write ‘I don’t know what to write, I don’t know what to write, I don’t know what to write.’ It doesn’t matter, just write it.
I’ve started writing morning pages again this week. I’ve got into some bad patterns generally in my lifestyle, so I am trying to establish some newer, more productive ones.
I like doing morning pages I feel that it clears out my mind a little bit for the day. While I may not achieve everything I write down that I need to do, I feel that putting it down on paper makes we worry about work a little bit less.
