It really just comes down to the fact that this amount of writing feels about right. Of course if hadn't been available, I would've totally found a way to prove that 249 words per page was the accepted standard. So, three standard pages are about 750 words. 250 words per page is considered to be the standard accepted number of words per page. This is writing, and it's online, but it's not blogging, or Twittering, or Facebook status updating. I don't need to title my entries, or tag them, or enable comments, or any of that other stuff. And it's just weird having my private brain dumps out on various sites that are designed to be more social. I fear that I might accidentally forget to mark daily pages as private. I've tried writing my 750 words a day on Livejournal, Wordpress, PBWorks, Tumblr, and all of these other sites designed around putting content online. I don't know if my hands even work anymore with pen and paper for any task that takes longer than signing a check or credit card receipt. In the past, looking for a spare notebook was probably easier than looking for a computer. Here's how it works: ★ All online and private Over time, I've found that it's also very helpful as a tool to get thoughts going that have become stuck, or to help get to the bottom of a rotten mood.ħ50 Words is the online, future-ified, fun-ified translation of this exercise. I've used the exercise as a great way to think out loud without having to worry about half-formed ideas, random tangents, private stuff, and all the other things in our heads that we often filter out before ever voicing them or writing about them. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head.
I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. It's about learning a new habit: Writing. Hello, welcome to a little thing called 750 Words Join 558,966 other writers by signing up now → ★ What is this site about?
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