Morning Pages...ish

[grayestofghosts]

I think I might start morning pages, but not really. The first issue is the first thing in the morning issue, which is something I doubt anyway. They say first thing in the morning, but does anyone even have any kinds of thoughts first thing in the morning? I am non-functional and braindead for at least a couple hours. I think my idea is more that these are pre-writing pages, writing before the actual writing, I guess.

The second thing I'm doing wrong is that the notebook I got for this is an A6, so the pages are extremely tiny. But you know what? If they're small, I'm more likely to do them.

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[grayestofghosts]

Yes when I was trying to journal I would do it in the evenings because it seemed logical -- that was after all the stuff happened, and you would write down the stuff that happened, naturally -- and I often found that I did not want to do it, or I would forget. The one thing that was helpful for a while was writing down tasks that I needed to do the next day as a list right before I went to bed, which isn't really journaling (but was a bullet journal task). It was less that I thought I would be bored writing for 3 pages first thing in the morning and unable to think of things to write about but more that it seemed like an irrelevant waste of time.

It's funny that everyone has so many opinions about how morning pages should be done (it needs to be A4 pages! first thing in the morning! never reread!) and yet one of the rules also seems to be 'no rules'.