What Happens When You Write Everyday for 30 Days
Writing is something considered only for creative individuals. But it is not. It is a tool to seek answers from your inner self.
When I lost my creativity and had writer’s block, YouTube started to randomly recommend a book that I didn’t know had the possibility to change my life. When I read this book and practiced Morning Pages the way the book recommends, it changed my life.
I wrote three whole pages every day without questioning the practice, and after those 30 days, I had answers to all the questions that had been going on in my head, and it 7xed my creativity.
What is Morning Pages?
Morning pages are a simple yet effective practice that involves writing three pages of longhand, stream-of-consciousness writing every morning. Essentially a brain dump. They are a form of daily journaling that allows you to tap into your inner thoughts, emotions, and ideas without judgment or censorship.
I think they are extremely useful because of a concept called Creativity Faucet. Imagine your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is densely filled with trash. This wastewater needs to be cleared before clear water flows in.
Because your pipe only has one faucet, the only way to achieve clarity is to drain the wastewater first. And Morning Pages allows you to do just that. They allow your ideas to flow without you judging those ideas, and once bad ideas are emptied, a surprising thing happens: better ideas begin to arrive.
It gives the illusion that you have become more creative, but in reality, you already were creative. Your good ideas were just backed up by bad ideas that you never stopped and tried to clean.
Why Should You Do It?
It might be easy to assume that Morning Pages is only for creative individuals, but it is not. Since you’re doing it first thing in the morning, it allows you to seek help from your subconscious self and ask it the questions that you wanted to ask an outsider.
Even if you are a lawyer or CA who doesn’t require much creativity in their field of work, it will still help you. Because your ideas and questions are not only linked with your field of work. It can also contain personal questions like: Should I date this girl? How do I make more friends? How do I solve my procrastination habit? And a lot more.
The primary purpose of morning pages is to retrieve and reconnect with your creativity. By engaging in this seemingly pointless process, you can access a deeper level of self-awareness and uncover hidden insights and inspirations. Morning pages serve as a tool for self-discovery and self-expression. That’s why anyone can do it, irrespective of their field of work.
3 Things to Keep in Mind while doing Morning Pages?
1. Do it first thing in the Morning
Before you go to sleep, keep a notebook and pen ready near you, and as soon as you wake up, dive right into the notebook and start writing. This will allow you to clean up all your bad ideas and thoughts first thing in the morning and allow better ideas to flow by the end of your writing.
2. Write three whole pages
No matter what happens, try to write three whole pages every day. Sometimes, it might happen that you can’t write after the first, but push yourself or just write the same thing again and again. The idea is to clean up all the dirt in your ideas for better ideas to flow through.
3. Write without judgment
Most often, we unconsciously judge our writing. It stems from our desire to be perfect, but in reality, you don’t need to be. Because your initial ideas are going to be trash. Once you accept this, the need to judge every idea that comes to your brain will decrease, and you’ll be able to write freely and write whatever you want. This creativity to write whatever you want will allow for a better flow of ideas in your brain.
Conclusion
Morning Pages is a great tool for you to be able to trust yourself more. It allows you to improve your relationship with yourself, which some people might call self-love.
If you practice it daily, you will never ever face the problem of Writer’s Block, which every writer faces at some point in their life.
If you want to learn how to unblock your creativity and connect with yourself in a much better way, I’d recommend you go through this book called The Artist’s Way and put your trust in it to help you recover creatively.
Because the author shares stories of people she helped unblock, and after reading it, I can be sure that she wasn’t just throwing a bunch of words around.
