The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

I was skeptical. I always am. But I started reading it anyway. So much has been revealed to me since then, and through the insights of the author and my own mind. This is a phenomenal book that will stay with you forever. Get the Morning Pages addition, as well. Julia is an excellent source of inspiration and understanding, and shares all.

I got this booklet when it was on offer, so I thought it was good value for money. As I write this, the price has been bumped to 9.99, which I find outrageous. For that amount of money, you’re better off skipping it - you can find everything you need to know about Morning Pages online for free. 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.

It was a great read. It really helped me see the importance of the morning pages and how they unlock my creative side! Thank you so much!

The book is interesting, I am giving a try to the practice of Morning Pages and I am liking 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.

Inspirational. I know how amazing Morning Pages are. I have done over 90 days of Morning Pages by the beginning of 2015 (on paper). They led to great things... until I allowed myself to believe I could write them on my mac. Then have I was writing less, skipping days and lost the habit entirely. This book was a nice reminder to write "offline" again and reap the rewards of this creative habit. Thank you, Julia!

Gives the basics of the morning pages concepts. While I did get tired of reading about the fire, it did demonstrate the type of flow of consciousness that one is supposed to write in the morning pages.

This is a fantastic quick read packed with how to do an amazingly simple practice that can change your life. I have started writing my daily morning pages and am eager to see what develops.

Cameron urges all students of life who are blocked and feel scattered or unsure to begin each day writing three pages of how you feel or three pages of gibberish -but begin each day with these pages and see how your life unfolds into more moments of clarity and creative visions and accomplishments-great read!