Writing Labyrinth

If I have anyone out there who actually reads my blogs, you may have noticed my small obsession with Elizabeth Gilbert quotes. I am strange-minded. I like abstract thinking and any other person who has a mind-set that mirrors mine, I am automatically attracted to it. Andy Warhol and Albert Einstein, if you have ever read any of their quotes, have that outlook on words and thinking that is simply intriguing to me. Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Prat Love, is another one of those simply intriguing people.

“I believe that – if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression – that you should take on this work like a holy calling. I became a writer the way other people become monks or nuns. I made a vow to writing, very young. I became Bride-of-Writing. I was writing’s most devotional handmaiden. I built my entire life around writing. I didn’t know how else to do this. I didn’t know anyone who had ever become a writer. I had no, as they say, connections. I had no clues. I just began”

That is a subsection of her web page that I found not much less than a minute ago. For those of you looking at that and thinking, “What’s so special here?”: Let me enlighten you.

I came into college as a Chemistry major, and I switched pursuing a major in writing and journalism? It’s a complete three-sixty and completely unplanned. I have no idea what the heck I am doing. I have no idea where the heck I want to go. I just know, that I love to write. Easy squeezy lemon peezy. Simple as that.

I. Just. Want. To. Write.

About what? No idea. Published where? Not a clue. Working for who? Beats me.

But what intrigues me the most is that Elizabeth Gilbert, a writer that I personally see as admiral and successful, started off just as lost in this writing labyrinth as I am. But I guess she smelled the cheese at some point and found her way out. I just got to keep sniffing, maybe?

Oy.