19. Prompt Your Morning Pages

If you are just coming to this podcast on this episode, I have to tell you that I talk about Morning Pages a lot. It was the subject of Episode 1. Listen to that for the full description of what they are or read the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron [amazon affiliate link], which is where I was introduced to the idea. The main thing to know is that I start each morning by writing three pages of long hand writing in an automatic stream of consciousness style. I never show them to anyone and they aren’t meant to be published. The point is to train my brain to generate text on demand. If you read the entire thing, I would have a couple of sentences in a row here and there that make some sense, but overall, it’s not well-structured in any way. My pages tend to stray from topic to topic because I’m not considering the entire text. This is the breakthrough I had today. Write While True Episode 12: Keep a Topic List Write While True Episode 1: Training to Unblock Yourself Write While True Episode 18: Taking My Own Advice The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron [amazon affiliate link] Transcript