Interesting idea with the evening pages. I’ve tried the morning pages this week several times – usually it helped, but today some stuff came up right at the end when I had to finish, so it left me feeling a little frustrated.

In your experience with them, how important is the “3 page” rule? Do you find equal benefit by writing less if you are crunched for time or anything?

I’ll try the evening pages, too, and see how that goes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Secondly: Morning pages are great, I have just gone back to them after a long (grumpy!) period without them. But can I also suggest evening pages too? I am finding that doing both is really, really helping me in different ways. Morning: preparing for the day. Evening: reflection on the day, but also a little place to write worries (so they don’t nag me when trying to sleep) but also to acknowledge what I want to do – and more importantly – be the next day.

I have found the evening pages have helped me get to sleep faster, and have less crappy stuff to write in the morning too. And hell, feeling paper and pen in hand again is nice.

Hope this week is better.

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@Joely – This past week, “Bad” wasn’t bad enough so I had to go with Ugly. I look forward to seeing your spin on it, as well!

Looks like we’re both looking for balance. I’ll keep you posted on my quest if you do the same, o.k.?

@Robyn – Ah yes. Longhand. I think I remember what that is. ;-) I’ve actually been thinking about doing something similar to the Morning Pages (from the Artist’s Way), with pen and paper. Now that you also mentioned it, I’ll have to take that urge more seriously.

And no worries, my quest for balance will continue. Thanks for the encouragement!

I wish you all the best on finding some balance -it can be difficult, but it is well worth the effort.

And yeah, I love the name.