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'Free Writing' Zoom Workshop Morning Pages with renowned Authors & Journalists Margie Orford and Poppy Sebag-Montefiore


“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” Anaïs Nin

Longhand, stream of consciousness writing, guided by Margie every weekday morning.
There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages. They are not high art. They are not even ‘writing.’ They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind, and they are for your eyes only.

Morning Pages provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritise and synchronise the day at hand. Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put anything on the page...and then do more pages tomorrow

Please become an associate member of the studio for a one off fee of £10.

First workshop will be £15 and each successive workshop is £5 a session.

If you would like to join, please pay, then email via the contact page, and we will send the Zoom code

Paypal payments to  paypal.me/themewscoachworks (please use friends and family option) or via the donate Paypal button at the bottom of the page.

Free Writing

  • Give yourself a time limit. Write for one or ten or twenty minutes, and then stop.

  • Keep your hand moving until the time is up. Do not pause to stare into space or to read what you've written. Write quickly but not in a hurry.

  • Pay no attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, neatness, or style. Nobody else needs to read what you produce here. The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  • If you get off the topic or run out of ideas, keep writing anyway. If necessary, write nonsense or whatever comes into your head, or simply scribble: anything to keep the hand moving.

  • If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that.

  • When the time is up, look over what you've written, and mark passages that contain ideas or phrases that might be worth keeping or elaborating on in a subsequent free-writing session

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