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“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpiller.”
- Trina Paulus, Writer.
This quote, I think, offers very freeing words; that there is no key to life. There is no “right way,” special road, or particular order.
When people ask me, “How do I become creative/start a business/get happy/do art/etc.” what they’re really saying is, “My world is locked, please give me your key.”
What they don’t realise is, there truly isn’t a key because, as the quote suggests, nothing is locked. There is no pursuit hidden from us, it only seems like that …
Of the thousands of emails I’ve received, the most common is someone asking, ‘Tell me the steps to be creative.’
I understand where that question comes from because when you’re not living creatively and want to, the task seems so daunting that you think you don’t even know where to begin.
But you do.
When I first started all I knew is that I wanted to write. Write what? Well, that was an entirely different matter. I had no idea if I would …
Tonight in the video store my husband and I were debating over which movie to rent.
“Why don’t we get that movie that our friends recommended to us called Office Space,” I said.
“I don’t think you’d like it.” he replied.
“Why not?”
“Well, you wouldn’t understand it, you wouldn’t get the jokes. It has to do with office stuff.”
I just looked at him for a moment and then said with a grin, “I used to work in an office you know.”
He just looked …
It’s time to weed out my book collection, which has grown by leaps and bounds this past year. It’s time to choose which books I want to keep and which ones will be sold to the second-hand bookstore down the street. Most of the books I decided to sell were the ones that were so crucial and biblical to me last year when I began my journey from Corporate dropout to freelance writer – the ones on how to write.
When …
The Chronicles of Girl at Play began in April 2001 as a way for me to chronicle my leaving a successful corporate position to become a self-employed writer.
