Morning Pages
This month I’m taking a writing course (delivered in five sessions) on how to infuse your (fictional) characters with interiority, how to show them processing their thoughts in an interesting way. Meanwhile, in real life, we have thoughts running through our heads ALL THE DAMN TIME. But how many of those are interesting? How many of those are worth noting down? I have been in the habit of hand-writing Morning Pages for a few years now. Morning Pages is a practice created by Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way) and defined as ‘three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-consciousness’. It’s a morning brain dump before the world intrudes. I believe she says to do it before eating or drinking anything, but I treat that as a mere suggestion because my morning coffee is more than just ‘drinking’ something, it is life-giving blood. Cameron states, “There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages. These daily meanderings are not meant to be art.” Mine definitely are not. I wri...
