MemeMachineGo!

So last night I went to a Learning Annex class by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way and a stack of other books on creativity.

Mostly she spent the time drumming home the first two exercises from the Artist's Way, one of which is morning pages.

Morning pages are, simply, brain dumping 3 pages of whatever's in your head first thing in the morning every day, written longhand. It can be anything including "I don't know what to write" so long as it's what's on your mind... the only way to do it wrong is to worry about getting it right.

I've done morning pages before, but never really stuck with them. I did them this morning. What the heck. I realized that this is the first time I've pursued them since my repetitive stress injury has been wholly in remission — always before I could feel my arm fatiguing as I went, and felt anxious about expending my limited supply of arm usage for the day. It'll be nice to not worry about that.

[Originally posted to Death Upon My Shoulder; subsequently merged into MemeMachineGo!]