Okay so I’ve never read Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. But I’ve heard of Morning Pages and thought I may give them I go.  My version of morning pages is going to be blogging.  Not sure if that actually qualifies as a morning page ritual.  But heh, that’s me.
I’ve learned some cool stuff from Margie Lawson’s Deep Edits class and from recently reading Donald Maass’s workbook on Writing the Breakout Novel.
One thing that I’ve learned is that you need detail. Detail where you wouldn’t usually write it.

The kind of detail that gives the reader more depth into the story atmosphere. It can be a detail about the physicality of the setting, the emotions surrounding the theme or the attitude of one of your characters.
Detail like this:
Before: The glass fell to the floor and shattered.

After: The champagne flute tumbled to the floor and broke like the heart of unrequited love.

Okay so my example is a tiny bit purple in the prose department but you get my point, right?

My first draft is filled with generic phrases that lack detail.

Time to go back and add in those details. Today I’m going to make a list of things I can use in my story to add those important details.

They’ll relate to the reader the atmosphere of the story. The setting, the theme, the main character.

It should be fun.