Hopefully you’ve set off on your journey with The Artist’s Way and have started to write your Morning Pages. Now you’ve got some questions about them and I’m here to answer with Morning Pages FAQ. Morning Pages FAQ 1. What are Morning Pages? Morning Pages are a daily journaling practice popularized by Julia Cameron in…
The Artist’s Way – Introduction and Basics
The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron is a 12-week programme designed to help individuals unlock their creative potential—whether in the arts, at work, or in everyday life. It offers a wonderful way to invite more joy, curiosity, and creative exploration into daily routines. For me, however, The Artist’s Way has come to mean so much…
Three-Minute Writing Sprints
In her book Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Natalie Goldberg, suggests that ‘three-minute writing sprints’ can be considered as training to run a long distance – a book! You start small and build up skill, fluency and distance. Three-Minute Writing Sprints Try writing for three minutes on each of these…
Vulnerability And Writing
As a writer, I am always drawn to questions—the kind that have no simple answers, that stretch and challenge the mind rather than resolve neatly. I struggle to reach satisfying conclusions. Writing makes me realize how many sides there are to every story, and how much there is to learn. And, I understand that my…
Making It
This tool is taken from the chapter called ‘Making It’ in Julia Cameron‘s The Right To Write. In this chapter, Julia narrates her experience with a young man who sought her advice on how to make it as a writer. He had a counterpoint for every piece of advice that Julia gave him and found…
Writing Off The Page
It’s been quite a while since I wrote here. Today, I’m doing a free write using an exercise that Natalie Goldberg refers to in her Writing Down The Bones (Amazon affiliate link). It’s called writing off the page. Writing Off The Page Explained Take a poetry book. Open to any page, grab a line, write…