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What is this space?

I'm sort of taking a page from Julia Cameron's Artist's Way and The Right to Write.

Her central device is the "Morning Pages" concept. She tells her students to, every morning, write three pages. And to do this religiously. Even if you're not feeling up to it, get into the habit of doing this.

I tried doing this for a couple days, and I just felt like it was pointless.

The thing is, I never discovered myself as a writer until I started blogging when I was 21. Up until then, I thought I was terrible at writing. I always hated writing. And here's what I believe:

Writing and publishing are the same for me.

I've never considered myself a writer. And I even shudder at the thought of seeing myself that way. I'm a performer, promoter, communicator, and writing is just the medium that largely matches the material that I like to communicate. The content in my mind comes in words, yes, but also diagrams, and fragments. There's few complete sentences.

One of my favorite books is Flat Land because it includes not just words, but the visual representations of those words. That to me means an author is more into doing everything he or she can to express their ideas.

So I'm going to attempt to return to this "Morning Pages" idea by creating a public space called Liberation Pages. The idea is that that the device will work for me if it's in a public space.

Now I have two other blogs. Philosophistry gets 700 page views a day. Initially it was a space of major enthusiasm and passion. I posted whatever on it. That was the first 3-6 months. In the years afterward, I always kept trying to make it into something more, and in the process I lost touch the love that I had for writing. I have another space, Self-Programming, where I talk about self-improvement-related material. That formed as a spill-over from the writing I did on Philosophistry.

Anyway, I'm not going to post these "exercises" there because I already have stable audiences working there. But what if. What if, and I think that's the premise that Cameron is working on. That writing is an exercise too, something tentative and exploration. My favorite writing is when I don't know exactly what I'm going to write when I start.

Well, we'll see, if I want to keep coming back here.