Bad habits
When Violence Brings Consequence.
A Common Story It's not often a new story. You arrive at a new school, and at some point you become the target of verbal ridicule, social exclusion, or sometimes the physical prodding of a bully. This is commonplace, and almost universal in every environment. Whether or not you become an adult, everybody has to deal with a bully in their lives, or an individual who wants to belittle you for their own feeling of satisfaction and to remove their insecurities.
By Salvatore Pulvirenti4 years ago in Confessions
How To Heal Depression?
I always get the question how do you heal depression? There is a simple answer, you can't! Depression is not something that can be healed, instead of focusing on healing depression you should be focusing on how to not allow depression control your life .
By Briona Monet 4 years ago in Confessions
Into the stars
The you who was a strong figure, The you who was always present, The you who mattered most, The you who always cared, The you who taught right from wrong, The you who gave love and strength, The you who had so little but gave your all, The you who cherished and protected, The you who taught laughter and happiness The you who gave so much, yet received so little.
By ‘Lona 4 years ago in Confessions
Human connection is more authentic when sober. Top Story - July 2022.
Mocktails will save your life. As a casual wine drinker (it's 5 o'clock somewhere), I had to immediately find a substitute beverage for my evenings and social events. Sparkling water became my go-to, either alone or with juices and fresh or frozen fruit (still served in a wine glass for old times' sake). La Croix and cranberry-apple is my staple, but don't forget about smoothies and any (virgin) summer cocktail. When out at the bars, soda water and a lime will keep anyone from asking you where your drink is.
By Gina Stefan4 years ago in Confessions
A Creative Procrastinator
The origin story for my creative struggles. I recently had another cry which happens on a fortnightly basis because that's how I am as a person. I'm not the most creative person you would meet but I'm someone that likes doing new things but without commiting for the long run. I have a plethora of things that I want to do and yet they don't happen.
By tracydtn4 years ago in Confessions
Welcome Back Writer
For years, I’ve been talking about finally getting back into writing. Truth be told, I haven’t been writing since I graduated from college in 2018. During that time, I had so many writing projects that needed to be completed for classes, plus having to read my classmates stories and writing constructive criticism back to them. Did I love it? Not really. School work, you know? But when I graduated, and it was all over, and I really didn’t need to be worrying about anything but living?! I said, “screw writing!” and just stopped completely. After a while, I began to miss the feeling of typing out a story that’s due in less than an hour. The feeling of completing a writing project and the satisfaction I felt when reading a good story that I had written.
By Samantha J.4 years ago in Confessions
Chinese house and Western house
In the training class, the teacher talked about this issue: at present in China, the house can be said to be a necessity for marriage, any pair of men and women talking about marriage, the first thing must first solve the housing problem. And the house must be bought, the ownership must belong to the couple itself, as if only then, these two people are considered to have a real place to live. If it is rented, temporarily borrowed, or parents' property, then it is equivalent to no place to live. But in the West it is different. Westerners before the age of forty can buy a house is definitely an exception, before the age of forty, whether married or not, most of them are renting a place to live, or other channels to obtain a place to live, in any case, not their own money to buy, must be older people to be able to own their own property rights. Strangely enough, young Westerners who get married without buying their own homes do not consider themselves homeless, and men do not feel humiliated by the lack of a wedding home, nor do women feel aggrieved by marrying such a man. On the contrary, both men and women will live in the rented house in peace of mind, living as the Chinese bought their own house.
By DannyMox4 years ago in Confessions
OPIOIDS, The Good The Bad and The Ugly
It took me a long time to get to the point where I was comfortable enough to be open about my addiction. I was in denial for so long and I could not come to terms, that something like that would ever happen to me. I understand now that God had me go through it, to touch someone else, that may be going through the same thing.
By Harlie Jo 4 years ago in Confessions
How I Fight My Cripling Impostor Syndrome One Work Unit At a Time
A while back, I had a very experienced psychologist review my work. One has to respect the work psychologists do and their role in our health. Psychology is a very sensitive field for sure. A field that fascinates me immensely.
By James Ssekamatte4 years ago in Confessions
A Letter to all the Writers Using the Format of a Letter to Someone/Something as a Story Hook
Dear writers using the format of a letter to someone/something as a story hook, We need to talk. First I am sorry this message has to come in the form of a letter and not in person. It was simply not possible to locate every writer using the format of a letter to someone/something as a story hook to deliver it face to face. A quick scan of several "popular" web publishing platforms suggests that hundreds of these stories formatted as letters are written and published each week. This particular writing trick has been around since age immemorial and is so played out. Please, please stop using it. It is almost as cliché and overused as the article title in the form of a question which I have also suggested should see a major reduction in usage or even total elimination. The title of that article was itself written in the form of a question, much like the this piece which is written in the form of the very thing it is denouncing. That is referred to in the writing business as irony or satire or parody or one of those things. Not really sure exactly which, but definitely one of those, and most definitely awesome, smart, and funny, just like the author of this article, me. I am not saying that using the format of a letter to someone/something as a story hook is always a bad idea, but I am saying it is lazy, and way, way overused. While writing a story in the format of a letter to someone/something and/or with a title in the form of a question are both superior to writing a story in the form of a cooking recipe. they are all still lazy and way, way overused. If you do not have any better ideas for the format of your story below are some suggestions you might try, beyond the obvious of just writing it in the form of a story. Of course, don't forget that it needs to be at least six hundred words or obviously, it won't be any good and not worth publishing, but that goes without saying. How about any one or more of the following story forms you might try that are not in the form of letters to someone/something or with a title in the form of a question:
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Confessions
