The Learning Dreamer

The first week of February, I did not post anything to answer to IWSG but you should definitely go read my friends’ blogposts about this month topic. The  Insecure Writer's Support Group ,  is the brainchild of  Alex Cavanaugh .  YOU can sign up  HERE  to participate. Every month a question will be posed that may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Remember, the question is optional. You can write about anything that relates to your writing journey. This month's question was:  Is there a story or book you've written you want to/wish you could go back and change? This month co-hosts are : Joylene Nowell Butler,   Louise Barbour,  and  Tyrean Martinson . In my case, beside blog articles, I did not publish any book yet… I’m working on it!

I don't remember where I heard of Julia Cameron's Morning Pages but I do recall the need I had to write when I started those. I think I heard about her somewhere in a podcast. At first, like now with any new challenge, I had such a hard time to commit to write long hand 3 pages everyday. I would skip or forget many mornings in a row, the write my Morning Pages, for a week, or two, then forget again. I then challenged myself to repeat the exercise for 5 day. Later, I was happy with myself so, I doubled it to 10 days, and so on, until I hit 100 days. I figured if I can do it for 100 days (about 3-4 months), it meant I could do it for a long time. This happenned 8 years ago.  Recently, I added meditation for 20 minutes, to my mornings but, Morning Pages went down the drain at that time of the day. Meditation seems to have replaced writing.  So, my next endeavour will consist in replacing  internet surfing when I wake up by meditation, then write.  Let's write our Mornin...