I used to do my morning pages on the bus ride into Downtown Denver every workday morning and with coffee on the weekends. I think I still have the notebooks around the house somewhere. I remember working for Qwest (U.S. West at the time) as a project manager back then. It was the most stressful and irritating job I've ever had. In hindsight, doing the morning pages probably saved my sanity.
Anyways, after dumping just 9 pages, I can feel the clutter in my brain chipping away, WHOORAY! Funny thing is though, I don't remember what I wrote. You're not supposed to go back and read over it. So I have to ask myself, how insignificant is the stuff I let clutter up my brain?
I'm the author of the award winning novel
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I don't do the morning pages from the Artist's Way. I do the time writing from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. And I do go back and read what I wrote. What I am saying is: You can make your own rules here. You are in charge. Goldberg recommend reading your material and highlighting lines that you like. And you can use them to start a later writing. I have found that stuff I thought was terrible while I wrote it actually turned out better in the reading. And stuff I thought was great when I wrote it turned out not to be so good. Keep writing.
Thanks for the advice, Harley! I looked up that book on the library's website and put a hold on it to check it out. This part of the description really intrigued me, "Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice -"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind."
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