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Morning pages
an exercise by Julia Cameron

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Morning pages is an exercise from Julia Cameron’s  ‘The Artist’s Way’.

As soon as you get out of bed,  after putting the dog out, feeding the cat and putting the coffee pot on, write three pages; don't think about it, just write. There is no right or wrong way to do morning pages and it is just for yourself.

​For me, it generates flow between feelings, words framed as thoughts,  carried to the fingers​, which write.  I use this exercise as a warm up to develop fluency between feeling, thought and words. It has become my scales and arpeggios.

Write whatever comes into your head. Capture all the unconscious thoughts, ideas and dreams which you didn’t even know were there and which evaporate as the morning dawns and life gets in the way.

I fill a notebook every three or four weeks with this process and now I cannot start my day without it. I later sift the pages for snippets, ideas, connections and questions which inspire new ideas.  Although I write on a computer the rest of the time, my Morning Pages are hand written. There is something magical about waking up and making marks on paper. It is primitive and spontaneous
 
Hear directly from Julia Cameron - The Artists Way - juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/