I first heard about Morning Pages through Oliver Burkeman's newsletter. It's a somewhat famous (citation needed) creativity practice that involves writing X number of pages every morning.

That's it — no other restrictions. You don't have to meet a word count quota or write to any particular standard. It's freewriting with just enough constraint to dodge the daunting prospect of needing to have someething to say.

All you need to do is fill the page, even if it's literally just "blah blah blah" all the way or whinging about having nothing to write about.

My Morning Pages routine requires just two pages of a small notebook every weekday. Most of the time it happens in the morning, ideally the first thing when I wake up before any technology graces my eyeline (though I might check my phone for the time out of curiosity).

There was a period of a few days where my small notebook was unavailable to me, and I switched to just one page of a larger notebook. That was fine too.

I've tried and failed at daily freewriting on a computer, but something about physically handwriting in a notebook of restricted size is working for me. I currently use a fountain pen on fp-friendly paper, which produces a lovely tactile sensation, sound and aesthetic.

Sometimes my entries are very intentional, other times just giving thoughts space to flow unrestricted. Sometimes I have uncovered ideas that were lurking on the fringes. Other times I have had nothing to say and just word-saladed to fill the space.

Morning Pages isn't about shoulds and doing the same thing day after day. Anything goes.