Monsters From the Deep
So my Creativity Course got off to a roaring start and the first thing we have to do is learn to write 'Morning Pages'. Writing Morning Pages is a technique in which you empty the subconscious, sort of vomit it onto the page, at least once a day. Preferably you do it first thing in the morning, without thinking, judging or editing your work. It's not a new idea - one wonders whether artists and writers have been at something similar since the first troubador hiked his wares at the castle gate. Since the first troubadour... There are various famous works one could learn from - the journals of Virginia Woolf, to name but one, and Dorothea Brande's brilliant classic 'Becoming A Writer'. Out of print now and hellishly expensive, it's still worth looking out for. DB gives those wonderful pep talks so redolent of old black and white movies. "If you fail repeatedly at this exercise, give up writing. Your resistance is actually greater than your de...