Morning Pages...?!

In THE MIRACLE OF THE MORNING PAGES JOURNAL, Julia Camera answers some of the most commonly asked questions about her famous "Morning Pages."  I was able to zip through the book in just a little more than an hour, so it's a nice, quick, easy read.

I have known about Morning Pages for several years now and I've gone through periods of time, mostly in the summer months, when I've done them consistently.  But I haven't been able to keep them going.

Why?

Because I'm just not a morning person.  Once I get up, I have to get my son ready for school as well as myself.  I sleep until the last possible second.  I really hate getting up early.  I am NOT a morning person.

I do agree with Julia Cameron's premise of the Morning Pages.  She makes a lot of sense and I do agree that when I did them, great things happened.  Everything Cameron talks about in explaining Morning Pages makes perfect sense and I want to get started writing Morning Pages, again, every single day.

But there's that nagging fact that I'm just NOT a morning person.

One thing that kind of bothers me a little about Cameron's thorough discussion of the Morning Pages is that over and over again she states that "there are no rules" to Morning Pages.  Yet, she states several rules within her question/answer session in this book:  it must be 3 pages--no more or less; it must be long-hand; an 8-1/2 x 11-sized notebook must be used (yet she doesn't specify wide or college-ruled); and, most importantly, they must be written in the Morning, first thing.

In theory, I agree wholeheartedly with everything Cameron says about doing Morning Pages in the morning.  She makes perfect sense when she talks about how at the beginning of the day, we have a blank slate--nothing has happened yet, but anything can happen--we can CHANGE our future because we're purposeful about it.  But if we write at night, we're writing about what's already happened and what can't change.

I wish it wasn't just theory for me.  I WANT to do Morning Pages in the morning.  But apparently I don't want to do them bad enough.....