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I’ve started a LiveJournal account to store my Morning Pages! There are many definitions of morning pages, but I define them as a journal of thoughts sometimes used by writers to break them out of a construct called, Writer’s Block. I manually started Morning Pages a couple of days ago in a college ruled notebook, but wanted something a little more perpetual.
To keep me focused on the goal of being a better writer, I set a couple of rules for my Morning Pages:
- Write for 30 minutes
Anything less is not working. Anything more will go into rambling. Build a habit of intent journaling for 30 minutes every day.
- Write continuously
Try to write in one thought with as little spelling changes or paragraphs. Write as a wave and keep riding it. Don’t waste an extra keyboard stroke on capitalizing anything or backspaces.
- Write with intent
Focus on the goal of making these pages focused on a play idea, a joke, a through-line, a character study – anything focused on storytelling.
Because of the focus that I want these morning pages to have, I decided to post them on another site outside of here, because I want this site to be focused on my work and what I’m trying to do as a playwright!
Anyways, if you’re interested, you can find my random 30-minute ramblings at https://consplayspace.livejournal.com/