How to Turn Your Morning Pages into Blog Posts or Podcast Episodes
Did you know that there is a treasure trove of ideas hidden inside your mind, just waiting to be turned into something that can be shared with the world?
The best thing is that it will be helpful and healing for you at the same time.
You might have heard about morning pages, a tool from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. If not you can find out more over here. I write a bit more about how I do them in How to Create a Simple Nourishing Morning Routine.
But it’s basically 3 pages of free hand writing every morning without judging or censoring any of it. Allowing it all to be. Like emptying our brain onto the page.
It’s a wonderful way to get past your inner critic and I highly recommend this practise for tapping into your well of ideas, even if it doesn’t look like anything great could come out of this in the beginning.
Maybe you are already familiar with morning pages and would like to know how to use all this writing in a productive way.
You might have books filled with this kind of writing but are missing a way to turn some of it into something that people actually want to read or listen to.
Here is a simple 5 step process you can use to turn messy stream of conscious writing into gold.
5 Steps to Turning Your Morning Pages into Blog Posts or Podcast Episodes
Step 1
Write morning pages for a week or until you have some material to work with. If you have some old writing, you can use that too.
Step 2
Grab a highlighter and go through your writing. Are there any insights you had, any aha moments or things you found out for yourself? Problems you solved for yourself or tools you found useful along the way?
Could you turn any of these insights into something that might be helpful or inspiring for someone?
Step 3
Write down a few titles like “How to turn your morning pages into blog posts” or “5 Things that helped me with…”
Choose one that speaks to you without overthinking it. Quick intuitive decisions are usually best.
Step 4
Next write out some bullet points or steps that you want to elaborate on. You could also create a mindmap with the topic in the centre and different ideas going out from the topic.
Don’t censor anything at this stage, let the ideas come and write them all down.
Step 5
Step away for a while or start writing frantically. If you feel any resistance set a timer and free write about your chosen topic. That will get you into the flow.
Organize your bullet points or steps and flesh them out until you have a new blog post or podcast episode.
