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The Surprising Benefits of "Download" Writing Every Day

The Surprising Benefits of "Download" Writing Every Day

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jan 27, 2023
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At a gathering this past week, a friend was talking up Morning Pages, the stream-of-consciousness writing activity proposed by Julia Cameron in her Artist's Way books. My friend recently rediscovered the benefit of them to her art.

"It's basically an effective download," she said. "I don't much care what I write; it's the act of cleaning out that makes …

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