Morning Pages - does anyone do them?

Oh Georgesgran your post about your friend made me laugh. What a lucky surgery to " enjoy " her regular calls!

I think it’s generally known as ‘Normal’ . I was at a talk where it was referred to as a soup page, where you keep all the half-formed thoughts in one place and go back to them when you have time. Sometimes the flavours meld as they do in soup and one idea improves another.

Depends a bit on the size of the pages 😉.
It's just to be a written sort of consciousness. Sometimes I wake up and feel a bit down and bleak - perhaps just writing that down would prompt my brain to remember that days are never as bad as we first think and would prompt my brain to think of happier things. I'll give it a try - with small pages and big handwriting 😂

I try to write in the morning, but not straight away, and in the evening which I often fail at due to being tired.

My problem isn't getting creative but having too many ideas which never come to anything?

Does this have a name and do other people have it?

Callistemon21

Oh goodness, no

My brain doesn't get into gear until I've had at least two cups of tea.

Me neither, Calli, but that’s part of the idea. If your brain isn’t in gear you aren’t so much thinking as . . . something else (I need to back to basics, don’t I?) and are writing subconsciously, which in theory allows creativity to come to the surface.

I wouldn’t worry about three pages - you can set your own rules or use a small notebook.

I do think a lot before I get up, planning the day.
But it all goes pear-shaped when I get out of bed.

And two Caramel Wafer in my case, Calli! 😂

Oh goodness, no

My brain doesn't get into gear until I've had at least two cups of tea.

Three pages doesn’t seem so bad when you say a notebook. The front of mine is smaller than the front cover of Murdle and I can manage that, but I seem to fill it the same way as Doodledog-somethings about yesterday’s visitors, or the gym or seeing a full size harp being manœuvered out of a small terraced house as we were passing, or what’s on for today. I couldn’t do three pages of a school exercise book.

My hypochondriac friend keeps a health diary! She ‘reports’ anything from a scratchy throat to a sneeze and hiccups in it, to discuss in her weekly phone call to one of her Surgery nurses!

What a brilliant idea - but THREE pages?
I have a friend who says she doesn’t exactly keep a diary but write a couple of sentences at the end of every day and has done so all her adult life.
I think we should commit more to paper.
Every so often Facebook “reminds” me in the “Today’s Memories” section about various high and low points in my life which I had just about forgotten, especially how I felt at the time.
Food for thought.