Are you finding your morning pages a chore?

Caite posted today that she is finding the pages a chore, that she's not getting anything great or deep or profound from them and it's making her feel vaguely martyrlike....

Is anyone else finding this?

The morning pages are one of Julia Cameron's key tools. And she might say that you are resistant, Caite.

I found myself resistant last week, spitting and huffing and puffing at the page. But something's changed this week, and I'm spewing like a green rage fountain. It's not pleasant or fragant but better out than in, I say.

Would you be willing to keep on going with the pages, Caite. Commit to work through the resistance - if that's what it is and keep us posted.

It would be good to hear how others are finding it. Although check out the chat room in the Big Leap Zone - there's a lot of conversation about the morning pages there too, Caite. (the password is LEAP)

Suzy x

Comments

[Laura]

I find the morning pages to be a mixed bag. There have been times when i've worked through some difficult issue or maybe scoped out a plot point for my book. Then there are the "not so good" times, like last Thursday morning when I sat at my kitchen table, chin in hand, watching the clock to make sure I wasn't late, and I hated it. I was tired and felt like I was rushing my homework the morning it was due. I stopped after half a page, half way through the sentence I was writing, and just left the house. I had a crap day in the office that day. Restless, grumpy, tetchy (probably linked). Then the next morning I got back into the flow. I'd had a better night's sleep. But yes, there are days where I just write words for the sake of filling the page, and they are forced out and those days are hard.

[Margo]

Hi, like Laura I have found the morning pages to be hard but then I tried the idea of a theme. Last week, I decided on snow on Thursday morning. It made me able to write easily about snow, how it made me feel, memories on being in it and bringing out the child in everyone. And from there before I knew it, 3 pages were done. So when I get stuck now I just think of a theme and it gets me started. Trains, blue sky, and Friday 13th will be my theme tomorrow. Not long into my theme, I find myself on a complete tangent. Lots of negative things coming out, that I'm tired and all the above. But I do get the pages covered and am hoping to persevere.

[Caite]

I'm ok to carry on with the morning pages...and I'm not sure it's resistance, I have just never been much of a writer never even kept a teenage diary...I went for painting instead. I'm just not mad at anyone or thing at the moment....I'm in a rather settled place....and I feel I've done enough ranting in my life.But ...there is always room for improvement so rest assured I'll do them.
Caite x