It's also helpful for me to practice the polar opposite: morning pages. Where I write 750 words in the morning about just about anything, where I know it will b

It's also helpful for me to practice the polar opposite: morning pages. Where I write 750 words in the morning about just about anything, where I know it will be unpublished and remain private. It's kind of like journaling or keeping a diary, without the mental pressure of having it chronicle your day or make any sense. I actually find that it's more valuable to just get thoughts and mental cruft out on a page in order to free up my creative brain, than to actually look back or reflect on anything I've written.