How to prevent /part from skipping a page, or what else could I use instead

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I'm still relatively new to LaTeX as I switched after having too many problems with Microsoft Word. I'm required to write a document with very precise requirements at the beginning of the document that are making me confuse. Currently, from my table of content and chapter 1, everything seems fine, but I need some "meta" chapters to come between the cover and the content, kind of prefaces.

My first though was to use Part()

part*(First preface)
text
part*(Second preface)
text....

Current problem is that I get "First preface title", but then the text is on the next page, I would like the title to appear on top of the page and the text to start just after.

I dont really know if it's important that the title appears as a part.
It could just some kind of title (I tried title but it's apparently only for the document title not some kind of headings.)

(Using TexMaker 5.0.4/Windows 10 and MiKTex 2.9 )

TTT · Answer

Here's how I solved the problem for now.

centerline{textbf{First preface title}}
Text...
blankpage
centerline{textbf{Second preface title}}
Text...
blankpage

I hoped for a cleaner solution but this one is at least satisfying. I still need to tweak a bit to add some space between preface titles and text, and to make titles a larger.

StackExchange won't let me select this solution for I think two days so I'm still accepting better solutions.

How to prevent /part from skipping a page, or what else could I use instead

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