Writing tips
Add Medium to your Morning Pages
Part One Julia Cameron, Part Two Medium

I’m sure you’ve heard about morning pages, but have you heard about Medium Pages?
Morning pages, made famous by Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing. They are seen as essential to harnessing your most creative self. Morning pages spiritually clean out your closet, remove those nagging spider webs, and wipe the shit off your proverbial shoes.
Julia Cameron calls them “The bedrock tool of a creative recovery.”
Let’s face it, creative people are always in recovery. Recovery from the world that we act out through our creations. I love morning pages. They’re awesome, but they’re only the beginning.
What do you do after you’ve accomplished step one, cleaned up your muddy mind, and you’re ready for creative action? Where to now? Where’s the party?
I say, let Medium be your part two!
PART TWO
- Refill your coffee
- Open your Medium
- Click on your face

4. Click on Write a Story

5. First thing that comes to mind, make it a title. I don’t care if the title is “Dan’s didn’t wash the dishes last night.” Might be Comedy. Might be Feminism. Might be a Relationship. Might be an Open Letter. Keep at it.

6. Done with Dan? Exhausted that topic? While your writing, it’s inevitable, something else will come up for you. Awesome. More material! Make sure your work is saved and move on.

7. Open a new Write a Story. Maybe while you were writing about Dan not doing the dishes, you started thinking about how baseball and Georgia. Title that Story whatever comes to mind. Don’t overthink the title. Think of the title as a post-it note, a place saver. You can change it later. Write this piece until something else comes up for you.

8. Repeat starting new stories three to five times. You can also set a timer for five to ten minutes per idea, depending on how much time you have to write. If you have half an hour, set the timer for five minute increments. Spend five minutes on each new idea.
8. Now you have three to five new drafts that you can play with when you’re brain is blank. Think of your drafts as your writer’s prompts.

8. You can always clean out your drafts later, if you’re inner Marie Kondo is flinching.
But, if you’re like me, all those drafts remind you that there’s a lot of goodies up in the attic, and you’re never going to run out of material.