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.

[silverflight8]

I did 750words.com (the online equivalent) for I think about 130 days straight - moved and lost internet and therefore fell off, and all subsequent attempts kept failing (and failing, and failing, and failing) so I ragequit.

I attribute this not only to the failing bit, but also that their openID authentication sucked and locked me out for days sometimes (OH COME ON) and also that I had to be connected to the Internet and it had to be reasonably fast for the words to appear as I went. I type fast, and it's not helpful when the words appear on the screen fifteen seconds later. IDK. It shouldn't affect me! But it does! It's like my fingers suddenly, in the absence of a visual guide, lose their ability to make words.

At any rate, that is my Thoughts on 750words, if you ever wanted to know!

[clare_dragonfly]

Oh, man, it was my week to do this, wasn't it? I don't know what the hell is with the Google calendar reminders--I have it set to remind me an hour before, but it's been sending emails a day before either, which is not useful. Sorry about that.

I did morning pages for a while. Mostly, they just took up time. I mean, I write every day no matter what. Adding an extra three pages in the morning was just inconvenient!