The Discipline of Creativity

Julia Cameron's three morning pages a day is an offering of creativity and order that anyone would benefit from. The more discipline we impose on the act, the more potent the effects become. Too often this obsessive compulsion for perfection can whirl writers into too critical, and indeed often incorrect, judgments of their writing’s quality. If the judgments are too harsh and too frequent, they can understandably result in the writer giving it up.