Morning Pages

The inspiration for 750Words.com, my latest reason for enthusiasm about writing, is the passage about a tool for creative recovery called "Morning Pages" in Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way. Simply, writing. Cameron puts it this way:

When people [in her creative workshop] ask, "Why do we write morning pages?" I joke, "To get to the other side." They think I am kidding, but I'm not. Morning pages do get us to the other side: the other side of our fear, of our negativity, of our moods. Above all, they get us beyond our Censor. Beyond the reach o f the Censor's babble we find our won quiet center, the place where we hear the still, small voice that is at once our creator's and our own.

The sentiments that she shares here--the impetus for writing the morning pages--both explains and calls into question my desire to scrutinize my "self-importance" theme. The take-away? Forget about it. At most, the theme of "self-importance" that comes up in my "morning pages" could be junk that I need to get through (out on paper) in order to begin the real task of creative writing. In my case, it's creative non-fiction.