Such a great idea! I first read the artist's way back in college in 1998 when I was still singing Opera, and I pretty consistently did morning pages for a long time. After a while, I just started using them to complain and pour out my worries and anxiety, which at the time ended up not being healthy for me.
I am currently thinking about what all I want to do to revive my writing practice and I have thought about a return to morning pages ... But with parameters. No complaining! 🤣
I totally agree with you about not wanting to waste words! I sometimes find myself not writing at all for long periods because I don't exactly have the plot and I don't want to write stuff I'll throw away. But at the same time, I've successfully used trial and error to find my story faster and thrown away 40k words and still gotten done faster because now the real story was unlocked. So why don't I just go for it? I can't explain it!
Ugh, I’m the same way. I write my way into stories l, and I know that sometimes means I need to go in wrong directions to find the right story and just delete that stuff when I find the right way. But it’s still so hard to trust the wandering. Also, what you said about the complaining, in that journal ideas link above, they had one suggestion that was a positivity journal. I thought it was a clever alternative to a gratitude journal because sometimes if I gratitude journal, I end up repeating the same stuff. A positivity journal, you apparently just write down positive things that happened that day (or the day before if you’re doing it in the morning.) So maybe marrying that with morning pages might work for you?
I fall off the Morning Pages wagon and find my way back time and again…and always, always wonder why the hell I let it go!? Count me in!
Yay! I'm loving them.
Such a great idea! I first read the artist's way back in college in 1998 when I was still singing Opera, and I pretty consistently did morning pages for a long time. After a while, I just started using them to complain and pour out my worries and anxiety, which at the time ended up not being healthy for me.
I am currently thinking about what all I want to do to revive my writing practice and I have thought about a return to morning pages ... But with parameters. No complaining! 🤣
I totally agree with you about not wanting to waste words! I sometimes find myself not writing at all for long periods because I don't exactly have the plot and I don't want to write stuff I'll throw away. But at the same time, I've successfully used trial and error to find my story faster and thrown away 40k words and still gotten done faster because now the real story was unlocked. So why don't I just go for it? I can't explain it!
Ugh, I’m the same way. I write my way into stories l, and I know that sometimes means I need to go in wrong directions to find the right story and just delete that stuff when I find the right way. But it’s still so hard to trust the wandering. Also, what you said about the complaining, in that journal ideas link above, they had one suggestion that was a positivity journal. I thought it was a clever alternative to a gratitude journal because sometimes if I gratitude journal, I end up repeating the same stuff. A positivity journal, you apparently just write down positive things that happened that day (or the day before if you’re doing it in the morning.) So maybe marrying that with morning pages might work for you?
Hope you find them helpful! I'm really enjoying doing the morning pages. This past week, I've actually found myself looking forward to them. :)