Over the last month or so, I've gone back to doing Morning Pages. I started mid-December and have been picking up steam ever since. I've been writing so much in my journal that I began a system of indexing it so I could keep track of everything. Ideas pour from my pen. I figure things […]
I mentioned process writing recently in another post but I want to look at it more in depth today. Why? I'll tell you why. Because I've realized that nearly all of my product writing has its origins in process writing. As in, blog posts, articles, and notes for scenes flowing from my pen. As in, […]
I wanted to write a blog post this morning, but my mind was empty of ideas. This is an unusual situation for me. Usually my brain is brimming with thoughts to share on writing. Not today. Was it because I just returned home from Nashville last week? Because I'd finished the greater part of a […]
While I'm on retreat, I've got a variety of guest posts for you. Today, please welcome Resham Khiani, as she writes about morning pages. It's Between the Page and I, 6 Things I Learned Over 10 Days of Morning Pages by Resham Khiani It's 8:00am on Saturday morning. Another long, hard week in London has […]
So, we teaching and coaching types love to give advice (except that the true essence of coaching is not so much giving advice as pulling what you yourself already know to be so out of yourself). I, for instance, love to tell people to do Morning Pages. (If you don't know what Morning Pages are, […]
Well, after a brief break for Christmas and sloth, it is time, finally, to resume my series on journal writing with a final flourish. It is a flourish because what I'm going to discuss is my current favorite type of journal writing, though I reserve the right to have a different favorite next month, because, […]
Yesterday, in Part Three* of my series on journaling, I wrote about four types of journal writing that I find useful. There are an infinite number of techniques you can use for effective journaling, and I may well write about others in the future. But for now, I've chosen to discuss the ones I […]
The Big, Scary Beast and the Ancient, Frail Feline are both asleep (in separate rooms, I might add) and so I have a moment to ponder techniques to keep access to the muse alive and well. This is on my mind because at the recent Loft orientation, my fellow mentor and old friend Betsy Woods […]
