Writing For a Magazine

I love life. I especially love my life, how I live it and the opportunites that come my way when I am choosing what it is that I want to do. Just when I thought that I was going to be miserable and almost began doing things for the wrong reasons, I turned the car around and even though I was feeling pain, I accepted the pain and held my head high. I got on my feet and headed where I needed to be and since I arrived here it has been amazing. I am doing the things that I love. I am writing.

Right now I am working on an article for a music magazine. It is perfect and I am in the perfect place to be doing it. Now, I always write, thats just me, but it is rare that I get to use the whole creative process, the one I learned sytematically in school and college and then applied my own style to. I always did VERY well when I applied mechanics to the creative process and used a formula. I write every day, but most of the time it comes right out of my head and into the journal or blog. Good practice, but I LOVE the creative process. There is a system to it and you can have a lot of fun during the brainstorming period...especially whe you are writing about something you have been involved with or love doing.

I have chosen to write about my buddy Patience. I have written about Patience before, we have had a ton of fun together in both New Orleans and in Santa Cruz. Patience has played with some VERY famous people and at some NOTABLE and FAMOUS places over the U.S. and he has been on stage at JAZZ FEST. He has a CD coming out like right now and I know people from places that he has filled...its perfect and he is one of my best friends. I am so confident that I am going to be able to write this article from a journalists perspective and make it look GREAT with great quotes from important people and in doing what I love, I will be also helping to lift the people around me who are also doing what they love. I am lucky, I am in a place where I know aa lot of people doing that and it inspires me and will also inspire and help them. THATS AWESOME.

The best part of this whole opportunity is that I am right near San Fransisco where some of my favorite authors and journalists, some of the BEST are and have been. If I can land a job for one little place here I will be able to land more and more and study under the best there is. All the while doing one of the things that I love around great people who I love. I'm diggin it. I am inspired and pumped. I really enjoy the creative process and the brainstorming part....well I am pretty EXTREME during that part. I find it to be VERY fun and I GET CRAZY! I am in the perfect place,

Right now I am in a house on top of the mountains, with a couple of GREAT people. I have a deck to sit out on with no people around and a veiw of valleys and the ocean. I have all of the time in the world and most of the people I have to interview are ten minutes from me (i will do a couple out of state over the phone). I have an office to work in, a room to do research and some of the most beautiful nature and great friends to inspire me. I just know that I am gonna make it happen! I am so very grateful for the friends who I have around me who believe in me believe in themselves and support me so greatly when it comes do doing the things that I love! Thanks guys!!

I couldn't ask for things to be better RIGHT NOW in this MOMENT.

I will be very busy over the next 3 days going through the creative process and managing interviews etc. and on day 4 I do my drafts. The creative process is all of the work. You would not believe how much writing you have to do before you even start a draft A LOT and then you have to manage your interviews in on time so that you don't get stuck while you are brainstorming. I have some wonderful writers who read my blog and who may have some tips for me that from their experiences. PLEASE feel free...I encourage you to contact me and give me advice.

This is the real deal guys and it is AMAZING and I feel very blessed in everything around me.

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`tilly

ps: this blog entry has not even been looked over....I have too much to do so I am sorry about any spelling issues! Wish me luck!!

Becoming More Aware

It's so funny, the more and more I become aware of the things in my life that have caused me pain in the past and the more and more I identify them, accept them and find the good in them, the shorter and shorter my times of turmoil are. As I have become aware of the things that I do in life to hurt myself and I realize why I have done them, the faster I grow and the happier I become, accepting that these things are lessons and will bring me full circle, back to where I want to be if I choose to be AWARE of how they occur, making life so much easier and so much more colorful. Time and time again I would do things for the wrong reasons and create sadness and misery for myself because that is what I was trained to do....that was what was comfortable. I would sit and dwell for months in sadness, trying to force things that were unhealthy thus making me an unhealthy person. Now with time, age, great friends and some books I have realized that all of the problems in my life are a direct result of the energy that I put out. I have realized that the people and relationships in my life are drawn to me by this energy and are actually a direct reflection of the things that I am scared of or dislike in myself. Now I quickly notice these things and am faster to recognize that te things that I dislike in the people around me, those are the same things that I dislike in myself and I am learning to identify that quickly and alter my own habits and the results in my life are EPIC.
These days I am really starting to evolve and to realize that in every area of my life, it is totally what I make of it and I am grateful to have these experiences because I am AWARE that they are mine and a reflection of me and if I pay close attention I am given a blueprint to what it is I need to change about myself.....and I change it.
Life is full of ups and downs but if you constantly grow and love yourself and love others fully the hard times can bring you the most success.

Embrace life....even when it hurts!!

Spread Love~

~tilly

Everything

Things are going to change and change is ALWAYS good. Life is an amazing thing, it really allows for you to do whatever it is that you want and you REALLY CAN think and visualize and make choices in your mind and manifest the things that you want. Unfortunately some of the things that you may WANT in life, may not be good for you or for the people closest to you. This is where ethics and values and morals are supposed to come into play. However, some people continue to choose CRAP for themselves and well, that's what they get. I have decided that I am not going to be one of those people. I see good and bad in EVERYTHING and I accept these things as reality. In my world GOD is EVERYTHING that is and I feel very connected to that and there is NO MAN who can tell me what I need to do to be free, because I am already there.
It pains me to see people out their creating their own misery by saying things like "I hate my job" or "my life sucks". It saddens me to see so many grown adults out there in the world creating their own torment and misery in their own lives OVER and OVER. I wish I could teach EVERYONE how to quell the mind. I am not PERFECT at these things....but I am getting better and better with amazing results. I have begun instinctively making the right choices and I have been able to establish WONDERFUL bonds with people new and old in my life.

I have worked for a long time trying become detached and I guess this JOURNEY may be a 3 year journey for me. I am tired of hearing people say that I need to settle right now. You people who say these things...I know that you care about me and it may be time to stop NOW or it may NOT, however this journey that I am on has much deeper meaning then a lot of people understand. This journey of detachment is something I have studied and is something done in just about EVERY religion. So I know what I am doing.

I refuse to be an unhappy person and have retrained myself to impulsively think good thoughts. Sometimes, I fall off track and every time I do, it is a BIGGER lesson before and just like a character in a video game, I get a POWERUP and am able to use my mind to do completely amazing things....essentially, I am willing everything in ny life and YOU are too.

Sometimes I just want to be angry because its an emotion. I am human, but I am not going to use the anger for bad. I will just do things like use that energy of anger and transform it into a masterpiece of some sort and share with the world.

"What the BLEEP do YOU know ?"