Morning Pages Are Worth a Shot

Lesson Learned & Shared

This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.

Morning Pages Are Worth A Shot

Hang around the creative community long enough and chances are you'll hear more than one person sing the praises of morning pages and The Artists Way. These were terms I kept hearing about long before I knew what they were. The Artist's Way is a 12 week program to reconnect to your creative self and the morning pages are a tool discussed there. The morning pages is a daily ritual where you, upon waking up, find three pieces of paper (I use a notebook) and write the first things that come to mind. You do nothing beforehand, and you don't stop your hand from moving until you are at the end of that third page.

It sounds like a weird nothing to do.
I challenge you to show up to the experience for one month straight before dismissing it. Morning pagees are more powerful than they sound.

Have you participated in The Artist's Way or tried the morning pages tool yet? What was your experience?

My #100DayProject for 2024

Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:

To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.

For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!