Very persuasive, Brenda! Your writing alone is so engaging that I trust every word. I do respond to the structure and "requirement" to show up and get words on the page. I used Julia Cameron Morning Pages for over a year and it was a huge boost!
Morning Pages really work for me too--especially when I'm lost in a project, been away from it too long, or have too many other thoughts swirling in my head to focus.
I so dearly wish I was a morning person. I know I’d get so much more done. But as a 60-something, sitting in my pajamas at almost 10 am because I can, I have to acknowledge it ain’t happening. However, I recently decided to shift my daily writing hours to the FIRST thing I do versus the last. I’ve always felt like I needed to clear the decks—get the laundry done, swat the pesky paid work off my list and back over the net, deal with house and life maintenance tasks—before I could sit down and work on my novel or Substack. All procrastination devices, of course. Now I’m trying to use what my writing coach calls my “first brain,” spending that energy on my own work first each day. It’s a bit of a struggle building a new habit, as Brenda has noted. But I’m getting there. Thanks for the inspiration!
Remarkable. I wouldn't be able to find the coffee pot much less my keyboard.
Very persuasive, Brenda! Your writing alone is so engaging that I trust every word. I do respond to the structure and "requirement" to show up and get words on the page. I used Julia Cameron Morning Pages for over a year and it was a huge boost!
Morning Pages really work for me too--especially when I'm lost in a project, been away from it too long, or have too many other thoughts swirling in my head to focus.
That's the struggle against the day job but also, I think, part of the chaos we sometimes feel in the creative process. That's good chaos.
I so dearly wish I was a morning person. I know I’d get so much more done. But as a 60-something, sitting in my pajamas at almost 10 am because I can, I have to acknowledge it ain’t happening. However, I recently decided to shift my daily writing hours to the FIRST thing I do versus the last. I’ve always felt like I needed to clear the decks—get the laundry done, swat the pesky paid work off my list and back over the net, deal with house and life maintenance tasks—before I could sit down and work on my novel or Substack. All procrastination devices, of course. Now I’m trying to use what my writing coach calls my “first brain,” spending that energy on my own work first each day. It’s a bit of a struggle building a new habit, as Brenda has noted. But I’m getting there. Thanks for the inspiration!