TnT: morning pages

[pipisafoat]

Contest 67 topic: premise: a character unexpectedly has an exact duplicate
Weekly off-topic post: kitchen disasters adventures
Contest 66 winner: 1stmate's poem (with a trigger warning! mind that!)

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Today's TnT was suggested by catness (and wasn't that just a lifesaver this week, with everybody too busy to even remember to post the TnT on the right day, much less come up with something ourselves!)

Morning Pages are this idea (that you've probably heard of before) that you should write every morning day. Three pages of whatever comes into your head. Diary-style whining about your setbacks or extended celebrations of your successes? Fantastic! Three pages of I have no idea what to write? Also good! Sooner or later, some little gem will pop out of all this.

Have you tried doing morning pages before? (How long did your attempt last?) What's good/bad about them for you?

Comments

[elaineofshalott]

Interesting that the Morning Pages suggest that one write with pen on paper. I think that could be useful--I type much faster than I write by hand, obvs, so the requisite slowing of speed could make some sort of difference (what sort I'm not sure). I did picowrimo last year, and only ended up writing on half the days of November instead of all of them--but all that was at my computer. The problem with writing on one's computer is that the internet pulls one away from writing. "Oh, I'll just check my email before I open up Word!" Two hours later: "Damn, I've got to [go to work/put the laundry in the dryer/stand up from this sitting position] and I haven't even written anything but blog comments." Ha.

Maybe I'll try the Evening Pages...the problem is making the time to do them, of course.

[pipisafoat]

If I'm planning to Sit Down And Write, I pretty much have to turn off my internet first. (Except I've started writing in Evernote for organization reasons, and it gets a little grumpy if the internet is off sometimes.)