And schedule your writing by your mood rather than the time of day and grabbing time, rather than waiting for the big chunk of time that you're never going to find. LOL!Īfter your morning pages, she recommends setting an easy daily quota of two to three pages, and 'laying tracks', slowly and steadily from a to b to c. This past week I set my alarm to go off 15 minutes early so I would have time to write before work, and found myself getting to work 10 minutes late. I stopped doing them again but committed to taking them up once again.
I found the morning pages to be beneficial over the years in working out problems, both with my family, and with my characters. You aren't being negative, "You're ventilating the negative feelings, not increasing them." And in the pages, "we face our demons, and when we do, we find we have room for new and positive endeavors." They urge us to be more honest, to take action where action is needed. They challenge us to change our size, to become larger, more daring.
They dare us to move outside our comfort zone. She begins with the beneficial reminder that morning pages are essential in letting your words flow on the page, artist dates are needed to fill the well as it empties, and walking helpful to your health and imagination. I didn't take 6 weeks to read as I wanted to find out all she had to offer, sooner than later. Julia Cameron's Write for Life is an inspirational and useful book full of warm and cozy essays, filled with tidbits on nature and her dog Lily, as she provides the gentle keys to writing.
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