My journey from aspiring child writer to weirdly confused genetic scientist and right back to aspiring writer wasn’t something I’d wish on any kid and their dreams.

After my teenage self decided to completely ditch everything I knew and change the trajectory of my career — I knew it would be a weird ride ahead, but I didn’t know how weird.

two girls in dressed in denim walk on a grassy cliff with a view of the ocean

Instead of writing — I took a detour into science. As part of my PhD, I hid beneath a white cloak of invisibility in a lab, extracting gene fragments from unfortunate hoverflies (those little bee-looking things that hover in place? thrilling stuff).

But the words never went away.

They just hung around in the back of my mind, tapping their impatient little feet, interrupting my sleep, barging into my shower, and stalking me until I finally gave in. One day, I just couldn’t ignore them anymore. So I decided to go back to that dream I put away a long time ago: to write for a living.

For the next couple of years, I freelanced, worked as a copywriter for a design studio, and became a Swiss army knife for a women’s rights NGO as a designer-copywriter-social media hybrid.

And THEN, when it was time to move on from the projects that had run their natural course, I figured I would finally be brave and transform into a butterfly, spread my colorful wings, and do my own thing.

That’s how Wordinarium was born — the new beginning and my very own ticket to a glorious life ahead.

So, if you’re here, thank you for contributing. And please, be kind. It’s my first time as a butterfly.

Your copywriter ally,

Lea Kurtek

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