It’s been a long time since I written what Julia Cameron calls morning pages. Free writing, first thing. But with a summer of writing stretching out before me, I’m going to get back to the habit of writing a little, first thing. Writing any long piece is an exercise in sustained returning to the words. But, I am busy with academic chores, and the morning can be a moment to get back to the work of putting the words together, which I want to complete this summer. A moment to think on the page, with a pencil, as a way to think on paper through the coming day, not just a day of writing, but also a day of writing.
What to work on today?
A chapter that needs an edited. Rather than doing a continuation from where I left of yesterday, which was revising, I’m going to go back to where I was a few weeks, to work on rewriting the whole thing into shape. Then I can polish. Forward momentum is more important than polish, at least in the early stage.