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The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin Kindle Edition
Also included in this e-special is an excerpt from The Artist's Way for Parents, the most highly requested addition to Julia Cameron's canon of work
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTarcherPerigee
- Publication dateJune 25, 2013
- File size2319 KB
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- ASIN : B00DIQ9K40
- Publisher : TarcherPerigee (June 25, 2013)
- Publication date : June 25, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 2319 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 61 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #426,683 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #150 in Motivational Growth & Spirituality
- #372 in 90-Minute Self-Help Short Reads
- #431 in Creativity Self-Help
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About the author
Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of more than thirty books, fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist's Way, Walking in This World, Finding Water, and The Writing Diet. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television.
Latest endeavor: Julia Cameron Live, an online course and artists' community led by Julia. It is the most comprehensive discussion she has ever done on The Artist's Way, and the first time she has allowed cameras in her home. www.juliacameronlive.com
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It all boils down to this: write 3 pages (around 750 words) every morning. The author insists that these pages have to be written long-hand (does anyone write shorthand?) and by hand. To that I say: if it makes a difference between doing it and not, type those pages! Also, while writing in the morning is definitely more productive (not to mention more likely to get done), it’s not going to be a disaster if you occasionally write at some other time of day. Finally, it may come as a shock to the system to start with 3 pages right off the bat. Make it manageable by setting a doable time or word limit, and increasing that every 7-10 days, until you get to the full 3 pages. Trust me, by the time you’re a month or two in (and by then the habit is established), you’ll be writing 3 pages worth of thoughts like a champ.
In short, it’s worth doing (read the Artist’s Way for more on that), but make it easy on yourself by not allowing dogmatic instructions to keep you from actually doing it.
The fact is that what the author write about this exercise as if it was the “magic bullet” to solve any trouble in your life. It has the same tone of an average self-help book. It mentions all these examples of people who started writing morning pages and found happiness and success. But, for none of them she gives a complete reference. I mean, if you write that someone thanked you because after she started writing morning pages she understood she wanted to write a book and found the courage and the energy to do it, and now she has published several books and is an accomplished author, why don’t you tell me who this women actually is? Why don’t you give me her complete name so that I can verify? It makes me guess if this women actually exists...
The second point is that there are lots of questions I have about the Morning Pages, that are not really solved by this book. Like:
.What if writing the MP one understands he/she is has some psychological problem?
.What if writing the MP one understands that her/his true desire is something that would hurt other people?
.What are the negative aspects of MP? I mean, everything that is good has some negative aspects, even if small ones.
.What scientific support does this practice have?
So, the only really useful information I have found are:
-Write as soon as you get up. Try not to lose time making coffe or brushing your teeth, because the more time passes from when you get up the less connection with the true self you will have while you are writing.
-Write longhand, because you want your thinking process to be slowed down.
-Write three pages of a 11x8.5 handbook. More space would make you lose momentum, less space would make you think small.
-Don’t read your previous pages for at least two months, and don’t allow anyone to read them. You have to be free to write anything.
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There is however a large section at the end in relation to parenting which does not fit in this book and seems completely unrelated to the Morning Pages. I actually stopped reading when I got to this section so do note that the book which actually talks about the morning pages is only about 65% of the book and the rest is completely irrelevant unless one is a parent.
Based on the fact that such a large part of the book is based on something irrelevant and unrelated to the Morning Pages I rate this 3. I would much rather simply buy her book "The Artist's Way". This seems like a bit of an attempt to make more money off readers who follow her religiously.