Early morning is the most crucial time of my day, and according to several authors I trust, it is the essential time for writers to prime their pumps.

“I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three and I suspect lunacy. Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow. An hour’s writing is tonic. I’m on my feet, running in circles, and yelling for a clean pair of spats. … [Take] your pinch of arsenic every morn so you can survive to sunset. …

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

“Now, it’s your turn. Jump!” – Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Creating, pgs. xiv-xv

Julia Cameron tells us that writing morning pages is how a writer learns to hush his harsh inner critic, which she calls “logic brain,” and spark creativity:

“Logic brain is our Censor…. Faced with an original sentence, phrase, paint squiggle, it says, ‘What the hell is that? That’s not right!’

“Artist brain is our inventor, our child, our very own personal absent-minded professor.” Cameron, The Artist’s Way, pgs. 12 – 13.

Partially because I need to re-launch my habit of writing morning pages, I plan to open my studio for creatives to meet together for coffee [and whatever they bring to eat] and write together. Wearing pajamas is fine for this program. Trust me. I’ll wear my pajamas to Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club Will Meet Monday Through Friday from 8:30 – 9:30.

Morning Pages is a free-writing exercise that Julia Cameron claims is an exercise not only for writers. Writing morning pages is a way for everyone to reclaim creativity and spontaneity. Writing morning pages is a way to untangle one’s wires and become more productive in all pursuits. On Wednesday mornings, I’ll share a thought from Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, and the remainder of the time will be a period of Free Writing

On Monday mornings, I plan to promote the habit of writing about one’s life, and I’ll call those days Memoir Mondays. On Mondays, I’ll toss out a memoir writing prompt. Participants are free to write about something other than the writing prompt.