Morning Pages

The rules are:

1. Write every morning.

2. Do not stop or pause:

   1. For corrections

   2. For self-editing (always welcome "Freudian" slips, or parapraxes; they can tell you much that you might need to hear.)

   3. To ... "say it better"

3. Do not think too much. Whatever is there, let it out, on "paper".

"Morning Pages" are a daily exercise based on Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way". 

This might lead me to say stupid, ignorant, and even bigoted, things. They are not always "me" and "what I believe", but they are what is in my brain and in my fingers. They can be things I need to work on, or they might be stupid typos. It is a creativity Exercise, for discovering what is inside me, and improving that content or expression of it.

Sometimes it can be helpful; sometimes it is frustrating; at other times it is nothing ... or, perhaps, enlightening. It simply is whatever it is; no judgement except, perhaps, after the fact of the writing of it.

I did this a lot, almost religiously, sometime in the late '90s or early 2000's, and I feel it helped me, both as a writer, and spiritually. So I want to try it again, which will be difficult now that I am going blind and coping with neuropathy, retinopathy and some small degree of dementia.