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The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Stop telling yourself, “It’s too late.” Stop waiting until you make enough money to do something you’d really love. Stop telling yourself, “It’s just my ego” whenever you yearn for a more creative life. Stop telling yourself that dreams don’t matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. Stop fearing that your family and f
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What are morning pages? Put simply, the morning pages are three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-consciousness: “Oh, god, another morning. I have NOTHING to say. I need to wash the curtains. Did I get my laundry yesterday? Blah, blah, blah . . .” They might also, more ingloriously, be called brain drain, since that is one of their main
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Pages are meant to be, simply, the act of moving the hand across the page and writing down whatever comes
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Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As
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Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
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we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.
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Morning pages are nonnegotiable. Never skip or skimp on morning pages. Your mood doesn’t matter. The rotten thing your Censor says doesn’t matter. We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t.
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The point is to stop taking the Censor as the voice of reason and learn to hear it for the blocking device that it is. Morning pages will help you to do this.
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And you shouldn’t even read them yourself for the first eight weeks or so. Just write three pages, and stick them into an envelope.
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The morning pages are the primary tool of creative recovery.
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