The year is coming to a close. If I stick to posting issues on Sundays, there are 3 left: December 11th, 18th, and 25th.
I want to do some annual recap posts. Those can be long and should be written in parts. So I’m trying something this week. Every day I’ve been trying to do morning pages. I just keep everything in one file and add to it every morning for at least 25 minutes. Right after getting to the gym.
It’s because I read about morning pages again in How to Write Funny (check out my book notes). Everyone has slightly different takes on morning pages. I’ve started writing them with some idea that I’ll review them in the future for ideas.
Sundays are my time to review the morning pages from the week to figure out what I’ll take through to rewrite, revise, and post in the following week. I’m supposed to pick two topics.
I’m writing this on Thursday, so I have a few days of morning pages. It currently says 3038 words.
Here are some things I wrote about:
- Cheesesteaks (I was in Philadelphia last week)
- Flow (Still in mind because I read Rise of Superman a few weeks ago)
- Tools of the Titans by Tim Ferriss
- Healthy, wealthy, and wise (a life audit)
- Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow and how it’s sort of been like tools of the titans of comedy
- There are a few topics to write about from Sick in the Head: Make it shorter, make it funnier; Jon Stewart; Different time periods; Jerry Seinfeld and insignificance
- As long as you get 7 hours of sleep
- 10 favorite books of 2016
- Reviewing morning pages
- Mental diet part 2
- Do I have the discipline to write about one or two things each week?
If I follow my plan, I’ll grab a couple of these topics to turn into full posts. Some of the morning pages sections are longer than the others. I’ve really been diving into Sick in the Head. I thought I’d buy it and just open it up over the next few months and read an interview here and an interview there. But I can’t put it down.
So I should write some book notes for it. Particularly a Jerry Seinfeld excerpt where he talks about looking at photos taken but the Hubble telescope to remind himself how unimportant he is. We’re drops in the bucket.
I should also post something I wrote sort of as a letter to myself. If I get 7 hours of sleep then I should go to the gym first thing in the morning. This post explains why.
I should keep the 10 favorite books of 2016 in mind for a couple weeks from now. I’d like to close out with a recap of all he books I read in 2016.
I’m gonna go ahead and drop some cheesesteak photos here instead of separating it into a different post.
Here are some progress shots from my drawings this week.
Shannon Briggs drawing. This was for my post about the importance of our mental diet.
Tim Ferriss drawing. This is for Tools of Titans. I’ve drawn Tim Ferriss before so it was good to see my progress.
I’m not improving as quickly as I’d like. I need to get back to reading Keys to Drawing. I also just need to draw more. I’ve been setting time aside to write. I need to do the same for drawing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger drawing. This is also for Tools of the Titans. My drawing seems to have skipped leg day.
Lion drawings.
I wanted to draw something to represent the low roar of the city in describing walking around with Bose QC35s. I wrote a review after a couple weeks of use.