Recipe for a Break-Through

Three Free Things

I read Virginia Woolf early in college. Even then, though I enjoyed A Room of One’s Own, the famous quote from her book that a woman needs “money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” struck me as difficult. Even before marriage and children, I knew those simple things were not simple at all, but almost impossible. For me and probably for you.

And now, as someone who has a room of her own (which she pays dearly for), I would like to add or substitute three more needs for creating that are all free—but often equally insurmountable. But this is the recipe I’ve discovered for a break-through in an artistic project. Three free things that work.

Have a great trip, the employee always tells me before I enter the room. And I, a person who has never done drugs, do.

Here’s the recipe: