You Don't Need People

The world is obsessed with having friends or family or a relationship. And then when those people betray you, or when just about anyone treats you like crap, it's really freaking upsetting. Some people get mad, some people get sad, some withdraw, some even get so upset that they start considering suicide. The old "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" saying? That is absolute nonsense. Yeah sure, it doesn't hurt you physically, but it can hurt your heart, mind, and soul, and we all know that those wounds can be a lot harder to heal than most physical ones. 

So here is an alphabetical (I think) list of things that can make you happy without involving anyone else. Because people can suck, and if you aren't happy by yourself, you'll never be able to be completely happy with another person. And if you think of something to add, please comment!

Accents

Actors

Armchairs

Armor

Art

Autumn

Bad romantic comedies

Bakeries

Baking

Being weird

Black

Blue crabs

Boats

Books 

Bouncy balls

Breeze

Bug zappers

Camping

Capes

Cats

Chapstick

Chips

Chocolate

Clothes

Coffee

Colors

Comic-Con

Concerts

Cooking 

Cosplay

Crystals

Dancing

Dandelions

Dogs

Drawing

Dressing up

Driving

Embroidery

Eyes

Fan art

Fanfiction

Fireplaces

Fireworks

Flea markets

Fleece

Flowers

Food

Freaking people out

Funny pictures

Fuzzy socks

Garage sales

Gelato

Getting dizzy and falling down

Glitter

Glow in the dark anything

Hats

Hemp 

Hobbies 

Horses

Hot chocolate

Ice cream

Jewels

Karate

Kittens

Knitting

Laughing

Locks

Lotion that smells good

Mac & cheese

Making a rock dam in a creek

Marvel

Money

The moon

Mountains 

Movies

Museums

Music

Nail polish

Netflix

The ocean

Petrichor

Pickles

Picnics

Pizza

Pools

Puppies

Qi

Quilting

Rain

Rivers

Rocking chairs

Salt

Shiny stuff

Shoes

Shopping

Singing

Singing at the top of your lungs in your underwear/in the shower

Sleeping

Sliding on slippery floors in socks

Slippers

Small children

Snacks

Snow

Spinny Chairs

Spring

Stars

Staying up late

Summer

Tea

The natural high you get from exercise

Theater

Theaters

Thrift stores

Tom Hiddleston’s smile

Traveling

TV series

Umbrellas

Updates

Villains

Video games

Walking

Walking around the house naked

Water

Waterfalls

Winter

Words

Writing

X-Rays

Xylophones

YouTubers

Zoos

Zippers

Thanks for helping with the list Kelsey. 

Curing Writer's Block

I often find myself plagued by writer's block. Anyone who writes anything knows this pain. It os a horrible horrible thing. You have a million ideas but you simply cannot put then down on paper. So I've decided to post my list of things that usually work for me when I can't write exactly what I want.

• Skip Ahead. Go forward five or ten or twenty chapters and write something from the middle of the story. A scene you know you want, an even that needs to happen, even the ending!
• Listen to music/switch what you're listening to. I find that music can be a massive inspiration, so find something that fits the scene/story and crank up the volume (but don't go deaf 'kay?). Two Steps from Hell and Thomas Bergersen (all instrumental) are a couple of my favorites. There are a lot of random songs that always make me feel more author-y too, I shall make a post about them some other time.
• Eat something. Come on, awesome food makes everything better! Can also help when writing a dinner scene etc.
• Write something else. Start a sequel, write a short story, start something completely new, it doesn't matter. Just try writing something other than whatever is driving you crazy and you might actually get some writing done. 

Hey look, the first letters spell out SLEW. So there's a slew of the things that help me the most.  If I think of anything else, I'll post that later. 

Oh I can't forget one of my favorites.... listen to this Binaural Beats track. I don't know if it works for anyone else but I love it to death. Maybe it's all in my head, but I swear it helps me concentrate on my writing.