I went on my first artist date yesterday! This is a suggestion by the book I am reading called, “The Artist’s Way”. When you go on an artist date, you take your “artist” self out to be inspired or just enjoy something artistically.
I really wanted to go to the high school soccer game so I decided that could be my artist date. As sat and enjoyed the game (because soccer is just so amazing of a sport), I also watched how the sunlight played on the players. The sun was setting a bit in the late afternoon so it created really great shadows across the field and people. Now I have some great ideas for a painting if I ever get the time to paint. 
Morning pages have not started off well with me. I did the first day and now haven’t done any. I have been in the process of moving so Ihaven’t even had a lot of time to sleep and eat. But maybe if I do my pages at a different time of the day they would work out better for me. I’m not a morning person, and nights are better so maybe I will try something that works for me better.
Don’t give up on the artist pages. I’ve found they are worth getting up even 15 minutes early for. They felt like a chore for the first day or two, but I seem to be processing a lot of crap through the pages – almost like a form of dreaming. When I missed one morning I felt out-of-sorts all day.
I have done some afternoon pages when the morning was just too short. As committed as I am to the process I can’t let it make me late to work. In fact I’ll be doing mine today at my lunch hour.