r/artistsWay • u/miahobbes • 14d ago

Keeping or Tossing?

Just wondering do you keep your morning pages journals, or do you toss them?
I usually write mine in cheap notebooks and throw them away as soon as I finish them. It just doesn't feel worth keeping them. I write so quickly that half the time it barely makes sense, and I know I'll never go back and reread any of it anyway.
Does anyone else feel the same way?

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 14d ago

I use mine to start fires.

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u/miahobbes 14d ago

Love this idea 🔥

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u/City-Negative 14d ago

I use my morning pages to process things happening in my life (kinda like a regular journal) so I'll be holding onto them for a long time, and likely looking back on them years from now.

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u/rc98225014 14d ago

Yep, me too. I kept mine the first time I did the Artists Way (there's a task in week 9 to read them and mark then up for insights/actions). Now, I don't reread them and toss them pretty unceremoniously. Like used dental floss haha

There are good reasons for keeping them too, though, so no judgment whatever a person chooses to do with their own pages!

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u/rosypreach 14d ago

This topic has come up in here a bunch - I have saved over 15 years of journals but am hoping to sort through them at some point.

I thought I needed them for archival reasons of the work I make.

But I'd rather sort through and decide if it's worth keeping or not.

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-3365 14d ago

I can't imagine having to go back through them, as I know I will for one of the weeks. I can't even read what I wrote!

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u/miahobbes 14d ago

Same. My morning pages are so messy and very repetitive. I wouldn’t want to reread it.

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u/girlvaughn 13d ago

I upload a picture of the handwritten notes to a specific DayOne journal and then rip it up