None of us know what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. Paulo Coelho From Eat, Pray, Love to Big Magic to City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert’s work has been a personal journey of discovery. To be in the room at her Perth event with Business Chicks earlier […]
If today was the last day of your life, what would you change? When Elizabeth Gilbert quoted an older friend who said that every thoughtful woman, every ten years, should take some time to be alone with herself, in order to re-examine the direction of her own life, and to decide if any alterations need to […]
In the noise, we hear voices of not good enough and you’ll never do it. In the noise, we feel the tension and stress of busyness in our bodies. We’re scared that we’ll find even darker places in the silence and perhaps not be able to face ourselves, but grace is found in silence. We know our adrenalin […]
Elizabeth Gilbert began Big Magic with a question: Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration. Every chapter is an attempt to articulate the mysterious process that occurs in me, and you, every day. Every day my relationship with creativity develops in ways that astound […]
This last week I’ve glimpsed a lot of Big Magic. At a retreat as we wrote our Morning Pages we allowed the writing to take us places we never expected. Over the weekend each person had a Big Magic moment—a moment of divinity—a point where the pen, the past and the present collided with Big Magic […]
We all have a story promise in us. Something sown deep within that seeks to be released. Perhaps some of you have that lump in your throat, that heart race, that visceral response in your body that tells you it’s time to make a promise. It may be time to give yourself permission to honour […]
It was 9am on the 26th of February 2010. I sat down at the kitchen table with a coffee and my notebook. I had an idea—an idea that I wanted to write a novel. I’d met a character in my early morning dreamtime. I pictured her. I heard her voice. I imagined what would happen […]
Have An Affair My husband’s been away for the last ten days and I’ve been having an affair. Now it’s not the sort of affair that you may think of when you read that word. I’ve been having an affair with my work. I’ve been sneaking off and stealing time in an attempt to finish the […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 78: One Wild and Precious Life When I was four I wanted to be a teacher. When I was ten I wanted to be a writer. When I was fourteen I wanted to go to Norway. When I was seventeen I had no idea of what I wanted to be […]
