A Simple Guide to a Less Shi**y Life
It’s amazing how many things can make us feel stressed, worried, or “less-than”. Life’s full of all kinds of negativity, stressors, and anxiety triggers. I know I’ve had far too...
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Fantasy Assassins Reading List
Welcome to The Ultimate Fantasy Assassins Reading List for Book Lovers If you love fantasy assassins as much as I do, you’ll probably be looking for more assassin fantasy books...
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When Your Brain Just Won’t Shut Up
Have you ever found that the best ideas come at the worst time? Even worse, once they start, they just keep on coming! More times than I can count, I’ve...
F**k Normal!
For the last few years, since I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (on the autism spectrum), I’ve become much more aware of mental, psychological, neurological, and emotional health issues. I’ve...
What the Heck is My Purpose?
Why? That’s probably a question most of us ask ourselves at some point in our lives. “Why do I exist?” “Why was I put on this world?” “Why do I...
The Many Faces of Loss
After a year of waiting, I FINALLY got to go to the cinema to watch Avengers: Endgame last weekend. Boy, was it worth it! Some heart-breaking moments, some huge laugh-out-loud...
The Bad Side of “Good” Personality Traits
According to many schools of thinking, there are five main traits that determine our personality. Also known as “the Big Five”, they are: Extraversion/Intraversion Emotional Stability/Neuroticism Conscientious/Disorganized Agreeableness/Disagreeableness Open-mindedness/Closed-mindedness At...
Embrace All Your Emotions: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
You ever have those REALLY bad days? You know the ones: the days where everything just seems to go from bad to worse, and you just can’t catch a break....
Ascension of Death is Finally Here!
I’m so excited, because it means that ANOTHER series is finished. That’s right, my third full series has come to an end! I still remember the feeling of overwhelm that...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Traitor
Judas Iscariot Peter Pettigrew Theon Greyjoy What started out as friendship, love, loyalty, or brotherhood has been twisted to the point that they are willing to betray those closest to...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: The Dark Knight
Batman The Punisher John Clark Dark Knights are vigilantes, punishers, and warriors for justice that use violence and “unethical” means to punish the wicked and deserving. Most adhere to a...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Scheming Mastermind
The Crimson King The Crippled God Emperor Palpatine These figures hide in the shadows and scheme to gain power, increase their wealth, or conquer the world. Their presence is rarely...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Crowd
Crowds can be dangerous, fickle, temperamental, and, worst of all, easily manipulated. It doesn’t take much to whip a crowd of rational individuals into a frenzied mob. When people get...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Organizations
The Ministry of Magic Starfleet Command The IRS (not fictional!) We’re all familiar with that vast, faceless organization that sucks at our time and forces us to jump through endless...
When Fictional Situations Solve Real Life Problems
Many of you have followed along in my writer's journey for a few weeks, months, or even years now. Most of the time, all you'll see is the excitement that...
17 Fantasy Anti-Heroes That Kick Serious Ass
What is it about fantasy anti-heroes that makes them so much fun to read? Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t have to worry too much about morality or “crossing...
Ultimate Guide to Villains and Antagonists: Bureaucrats
Mr. Clete of the Musicians' Guild Dolores Umbridge The entire race of Vogons Bureaucrats can be infuriating for the simple reason that there is nothing they can do to help...