Artist's Way Question
fbrown
I just started reading the Artist's Way and have a question regarding
the "morning pages."
The book says to do them longhand. Has anyone done them at the keyboard.
I hate writing longhand, can't read my handwriting and my hand gets
tired after 1/2 page. At the keyboard, however, I can type faster thus
getting my thoughts out quicker, can go much longer, feel as if I'm
releasing a lot more and overall just prefer it.
If the result is meant to free me up inside and to allow the blocks to
release themselves, then I've been doing this at the keyboard for years
and don't see why I have to change now.
Your opinions, please.
marlene davis
I paid money to buy the book.
I took the time to read the book.
I did both of these because I felt in need of some
assistance regarding my lack of productivity.
I type 95 wpm (no shit!). Writing longhand morning
was perhaps the most difficult task I've ever had to
do. I love the night. I write at night. Geez!
I'm not even awake until after 10:00 a.m. My body is moving
around, but there's nobody home.
My ADVICE: TRY DOING THE DAMN THING THE WAY THE BOOK PRESCRIBES.
CHANGE IS GOOD; IT'S BETTER THAN NOT CHANGING. What did I learn
from the exercise? It was not directly related to BLOCK, but
directly related to my lack of patience. I mean, I got in touch with
that real quick!
Love,
Mar...@nightly.com
ksvp
I've tried both ways, and I have to write it out longhand to get the
effects. It doesn't matter if I scribble it out unreadably (I do not
read them, using an alternate method in which the pages are either
thrown away unread or at least set aside for a year), but if my pen
runs out of ink and I keep "writing", that doesn't work either. Odd,
huh?
B.Ritter
In article <32DD7F...@flash.net> Anastasia Suen <fors...@flash.net> writes:
>From: Anastasia Suen <fors...@flash.net>
>Subject: Re: Artist's Way Question
>Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:08:18 -0800
>fbrown wrote:
>>
>> I just started reading the Artist's Way and have a question regarding
>> the "morning pages."
>>
>> The book says to do them longhand.
>> I hate writing longhand, At the keyboard, however, I can type faster
>It also says: "There is no wrong way to do morning pages." Consider
>yourself free...
For what it's worth: I took the 12-week Artist's Way Workshop and Julia
Cameron is adamant about handwriting the morning pages. I raised the same
question and for the same reason (my greater comfort at the keyboard), but it
was explained that there is a more dynamic direct connection between the mind
and the hand when physically writing. Therefore handwritten morning pages more
effectively delve into the inner recesses of your mind.
Betty Ritter
>Enjoy the journey... :) Anastasia
The Guardian
Actually,
I've read in several other "self help" type books in the same genre as "The
Artist's Way" which actually argue against the format Julia Cameron
recommends for morning pages (for writers only). Many feel it is actually
negative to forget the rules of writing even for this reason. Just
something I have read, not necessarily my opinion. I am probably not the
greatest, as I frequently forget/refuse/sleep through, etc my morning
pages... :-)
Anyone read her newest book, "Vein of Gold"? I saw it at the book store,
but it appeared a bit pricy, considering I have yet to finish the first
one.
Chris
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ksvp <ks...@sinewave.com> wrote in article
<5bv14p$a...@nyheter.SineWave.com>...
> I've tried both ways, and I have to write it out longhand to get the
> effects. It doesn't matter if I scribble it out unreadably (I do not
> read them, using an alternate method in which the pages are either
> thrown away unread or at least set aside for a year), but if my pen
> runs out of ink and I keep "writing", that doesn't work either. Odd,
> huh?
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:14:43 -0600, fbrown <fbr...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> >I just started reading the Artist's Way and have a question regarding
> >the "morning pages."
> >
im...@netcomuk.co.uk
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:14:43 -0600, fbrown <fbr...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>I just started reading the Artist's Way and have a question regarding
>the "morning pages."
>
>The book says to do them longhand. Has anyone done them at the keyboard.
>I hate writing longhand, can't read my handwriting and my hand gets
>tired after 1/2 page. At the keyboard, however, I can type faster thus
>getting my thoughts out quicker, can go much longer, feel as if I'm
>releasing a lot more and overall just prefer it.
>
>If the result is meant to free me up inside and to allow the blocks to
>release themselves, then I've been doing this at the keyboard for years
>and don't see why I have to change now.
>
>Your opinions, please.
Hello, I'm a Newbie from the U.K. I tried a year ago at least to
follow Julia Cameron's Artist's Way. I did Morning Pages for a few
months, don't quite know why it eventually petered out, probably a lot
of other things going on. I didn't especially recognize a change - a
progress forward - in creativity, but you sometimes can't tell how
these things are working under the surface. Anyway, I'm currently
having another try, hoping to keep it up longer.. I want to write more
this year - I write short stories, and so am too often at the
beginning of something - and I want to try new things, a screenplay,
maybe a novel. I've decided that three morning pages are not quite
right for me - two A4's? she doesn't stipulate size of paper - but
I've altered this rule to suit myself. I write two pages in longhand
whilst having morning coffee (it's often really hard but I persevere
and usually manage, some days better than others) and then I keep the
third page until later and regard it as the real 'play' page, when I
can be as silly and as playful as I like. This is a good warm-up for
further writing and also acts as a catalyst to get me to sit down and
start work later on.
I have the tapes of the Artist's Way. At first I didn't think they
helped much, at least not more than the book, but I feel now that it's
good to get to know a voice, so I listen every now and again, usually
late at night when one's especially receptive.
I think the Artist's dates are as important, maybe more important,
than the pages - they force you to learn to play again, something our
culture has edited out for a lot of people - life is Serious :-) :-)
Maggie, a newbie, (but enjoying being so.
And I'm still strangely nervous of you all, especially being English -
feels very foreign sometimes...:-)
John V Ashby
In article 1860...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk, im...@netcomuk.co.uk writes:
> life is Serious :-) :-)
>
You just had to go and spoil it for the rest of us, didn't you?
>Maggie, a newbie, (but enjoying being so.
>And I'm still strangely nervous of you all, especially being English -
>feels very foreign sometimes...:-)
Welcome aboard, Maggie. And you don't look at all foreign from where
I'm standing.
john (some corner of an English field)