I Thought I Had a Writing Schedule

 Get off work, then start typing. That worked while I was at DIY until the bone spurs in my hip threw me off of work and then my writing.

Hitachi wore me out, inflamed my left arm with tendonitis.

I have not been addin to the blog until today.

A Writer's Notebook published On Morning Pages, and from what I could read I will post these paragraphs:

I first started writing morning pages back in 2005 or so, after rediscovering Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Morning pages are one of the foundations of her program, along with things like taking yourself out on weekly “artist dates,” and creating a sense of abundance through small acts of care and indulgence. The idea with morning pages is that you write three pages longhand, stream of consciousness style, first thing in the morning. You roll out of bed, put pen to paper, and go. I was primed to accept this practice, since my college writing mentor, Mary Oliver, always stressed the importance of a daily writing “appointment.” (I know I mention her a lot, but her teaching had a big influence on how I write and teach, so it can’t be avoided.)

In the years after graduation, however, I had stopped writing poems. I stopped making appointments to write things that could turn into poems, and so poems had stopped landing on me, as I walked around, going about my day, the way they used to. I wasn’t sure I was a young poet anymore, but I did still seem to be a writer. I wrote, or tried to. I went to journalism school. After a while, I opened up The Artist’s Way again, and started writing morning pages. Cameron has described it as being akin to “a tiny whisk-broom that dislodges dust from every corner of our life.” And it worked for me, I think, on that level. But the problem with my morning pages was that what I tended to be left with in the end was just that: mental dust.

Yes, last night, I revised "Psychotic Ape", yet I worry that nothing is getting done. I am not sure if I can follow the above advice. Some mornings, it has been, I look up from the computer and I have been awake for 2 hours without accomplishing much. 

Right now, I need to shave and get ready to get out of here and run an errand before an interview for a retail job. I am tempted to stay put. To keep icing my arm and trying to type, and then walk over to the interview around 2:15. Put off the errand until tomorrow, when I have an interview with Wendy's.

What could I accomplish with the time left me, if I stay put?

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