You're listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast episode number 252.

Hey, it's Antries, and welcome to another episode of the Savabby Painter Podcast.

So, hi, as I'm recording this,

I am still in California.

Yes, we are on flight cancellation number five and I am 47 days past my original return date.

But who's counting? Fingers crossed, once again, fingers crossed,

I'm going home next week.

We shall see, but that's where I am at.

And so this morning, here's what I wanted to talk to you about today. This morning I was

writing in my journal and I started thinking about this artist that I interviewed

a while back and what he said about morning journals and his opinion of it, which was he really didn't like it.

He didn't like to do morning journals because it seemed to him like his thoughts were mostly

negative and then he felt badly afterwards.

So if you're familiar with Julia Cameron, she's been a guest on this podcast, and she wrote The Artist's Way, among many other books for Creative Minds.

She recommends that we start each day with the practice of writing three handwritten pages of whatever it is that's on our mind.

I call these thought downloads. They're just brain dumps or word vomit, as I often say it when all these words just come pouring out in a mixed up

jumble and land on my page. My thought downloads don't need to make any sense at all.

They are completely off the cuff, they are grammatically incorrect, they usually don't make sense. Sometimes, usually, often a lot, I repeat myself. They are

repetitively redundant. These pages aren't meant to be read by anyone else and most of the time

after I've written them and processed them, I never ever look at them again. I'm done that's it I burn them I throw them away

whatever they're gone but they are still an invaluable part of my creative process

this practice this habit of writing these pages out every morning cleans my brain out and it helps me make sense of all the

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