Get Struck by a Spiritual Lightning Bolt - The Importance of Writing Everyday

Carve Out Your Niche with Morning Pages

In the book The Artist's Way, author Julie Cameron describes a technique designed to overcome writer's block, and to connect with the source of wisdom within (which Carl Jung refers to as the "2 Million Your Old Man").

The technique, called morning pages, is to get up an hour earlier than you normally do, and in longhand writing, write three pages using strictly stream of consciousness. Every day, just write three pages of whatever crosses your mind, and don't stop until the three pages are full. 

Overcome Writing Obstacles

The purpose of this is to get past the things that inhibit us from writing; our fears, our negativity, or our moods. It gets us past them to a place where we can hear that still, small voice. And, when we are in that place past the negativity, we can align with the creative energies of the universe. 

It's like walking through down the beach during a rainstorm, and being stuck in the head by a 10,000 volt metaphor.

It Works for Me

If you are writing your book, (and if you're not, I'd like to know why), or if you need a boost to write more great blog articles, you ought to write the morning pages. When I first read about it, I had my doubts. It may sound far fetched, or New Age-ish, but I really think that Cameron has hit on something, because it WORKS! 

I have been doing it everyday for several weeks, and my opinion is that everything she claims is true.

As Cameron says,"It is impossible to write morning pages for any extended period of time without coming into contact with an unexpected inner power." 

You Can't Lose by Trying

The bottom line is that if you are in the business of writing, and who isn't, the only way to become a good writer is by writing. 

Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight.

Anything that causes us to write more is, prima facie, a good thing, even without the promised benefit of connecting to a greater wisdom. 

Why do the morning pages? Because any way you look at it, you win.


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