This week I decided to try out some free-writing. I had been trying to write something for my thesis for college and was getting stuck. I was getting very frustrated when I remembered one of my lecturers talking about something called free-writing. In free-writing you just sit down with a pen and paper and write whatever is on your mind at that time. As I was thinking about what my lecturer said I remembered hearing about ‘Morning Pages’. Morning pages were devised by Julia Cameron in her book The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Creativity. Morning pages can help writers, artists and people like me who are trying to do a thesis!

The idea is that you sit and write whatever comes into your head. Even if you can’t think of what to say you just write “I can’t think of what to say”! Eventually something does come out. Even if you write about the housework or that you need to bring the car for a service it helps to free your mind up. When your mind is free of these things then the creativity starts to flow. My lecturer suggested we sit down and write for about six minutes whilst Julia suggests writing about three pages of long-hand writing.
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