Writing Update | I'm Not Back...

...but I am attempting to write more. As you know a couple months back (except my shceduled posts) I hit the bloggers block hard and I haven't really written anything for at least 6 weeks straight for the blog. My novel writing has however increased but not as much as I would have liked. 

Writing Update | I'm Taking A Break...

Sometimes the need for a break is so large you crumble under the pressure to write. Words get lost and hard to find and what you do write never seems good enough.

Hey It's Okay... Relationship Virgins

Taking my inspiration from Cosmopolitans magazine and this article, I’ve come to the conclusion I am a relationship virgin. 

I wouldn’t know what a date was if it came and slapped me in the face. Sometimes I think a planned event with someone I quite fancy is a date, sometimes I have no idea cause it was only to the cinema. Is the Cinema a date? Do you have to formaly say it is one before it is?

Clueless. That’s me. 

Hey It's Okay... To Run Out Of Ideas

I'm writing this while I am currently in the situation. I have no ideas, so I thought I'd ramble about having no ideas. About why thats okay and what to do in this situation. I am even finding this hard to write, I am having one of those kinds of days where nothing is floating around in my mind. 

Hey It's Okay... I've Lost Pets Too

Pets become part of the family and a loss of one is felt as if you had lost your best friend. Sometimes it is losing your best friend, for me it was anyway. Dogs, cats, hamsters, whatever pet you have, the love you feel and the hurt and sadness that comes with the loss can tear like any other loss. 

Blogging | Blogger Jealousy

I wrote the majority of this post before I’d even found the post which I now edit this because of. I recently went onto April Todd’s blog Hello April and her December 3 Happy Things Post directed me to the attention of Scarphelia’s post titled; The Struggle of Being a Writer in a Bloggers World. 

The title itself is me in a nutshell. Something many of you might not know about me is I was writing my first novel and I hit the wall of writers block, then I found Zoella and I decided to start a blog in the hopes that it might keep my brain active enough to avoid writers block and allow me to continue writing. I’m not finished yet but I attempted NaNoWriMo and while I did not win I did write 32,000 words in two weeks. More to come on that soon.

Katie writes: But you know, I've come to think that the world would just be a better place, if we all started to be a bit more honest about envy.

With that in mind here’s my honesty about envy.

Hey It's Okay... Anxiety Confuses Me Too

Before I go more in-depth in this post, I am not writing about how I have anxiety. I am writing about how a person who doesn't suffer with it feels when their friends do and offer some advice on what they should do in those situations when it happens. Watching your friends go through panic attacks is not a nice experience for anyone involved, especially when you have no clue how to help someone you care about. So this post is just about how my friend and I worked through what I should do if they ever have one and how to react and I though I should share it as it might help someone else. 

BLOGMAS: A Little Love

The Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; 

courage to change the things I can; 

and wisdom to know the difference. 

Living one day at a time; 

Enjoying one moment at a time; 

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; 

Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; 

That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. - See more at: http://www.allaboutprayer.org/serenity-prayer.htm#sthash.9JN5VX5O.dpuf

BLOGMAS: Hey It's Okay... I Suffer With My Stomach Too

Everyone has suffered with it, and it's a very comment ailment that honestly can be cured pretty simply. Originally I thought it was what I ate or something hereditary as my father suffers with serious bad stomachs but the doctor told him it wasn't and so it all came back to me. 

IBS comes in different forms and anyone can suffer with it. It can be stress related, food related or even just life related. It doesn't necessarily have to be something that has triggered it but sometimes people suffer with it and don't do anything to help them control it

BLOGMAS: Disqus Commenting System | An Apology

Normally I’m not one for apologising on my blog. I don’t think bloggers/vloggers/youtubers should ever apologise for not posting or feeling unwell or their internet uploading slowly. It’s just not something that should be apologised for, in my opinion, and yet today here I am with an apology of my own.

It’s not because I won’t be posting or posts will be slower – it’s nothing like that but it is something I am not happy about and therefore I’m going to set up another little thing I do, and tell you all so you’re not disappointed. If you read and comment on my blog that is.

BLOGMAS: Intro and My Inspirations

Usually all the YouTubers do Vlogmas, however, I'm not that comfortable with a camera yet and so I've decided to do BLOGmas. I'll be blogging every day throughout the month of December up until Christmas. Then I'll be taking a week long break and so my last blog post of the year will be 28th December and I will restart blogging on 5th January - everyone needs a break right? 

What better way to start than with the people who inspire me.

It’s not very often I look to other people – but we all have role models and every writer, artist or YouTuber needs their inspiration. Whether they’re a celebrity or not if you feel inspired by them, well they probably are your role models and the people you want to most be like. However you need to stay away from that, let them inspire you by all means but don’t aspire to be just like them, stay yourself and let them influence things you do but don’t change a thing about yourself. Your prefect.

Hey it's Okay... I Get Stressed Too

Recently I have been having a lot of stressful days. I come home from work unmotivated, I'm lazy and quite frankly I don't want to do anything but sleep away the stresses of the day. I had writers block and then it hit me - a friend once told me to write something more personal so here is something a little more personal.

Not Your Usual Blog Post #2 | Alfie Deyes Vlog - 6th November 2014

I have been waiting for something like this ever since I wrote about Chloe Hamilton slandering Zoe/Zoella in her writing. Honestly I never thought I would get the chance to write another one of these Blog Posts here we are again. As you can tell from the recycled top image I was not prepared for this. 

As a subscriber to BOTH Zoe and Alfie I feel, as well as the Human Rights Act, I am allowed to speak my opinion and voice my concerns. 

Not Your Usual Blog Post

Usually I am not one for slandering other writers but I believe Chloe Hamilton's most recent post to be completely unethical compared to her other work. I realise she has a job to do along with her own opinions but, in my opinion, writing things that be little someone’s success when they have worked hard to achieve their dreams is wrong. I’m all for an opinionated post now and then but to criticize Zoe about her beauty advice is ridiculous. I mean, would you slander Jennifer Lawrence for stating that she’ll never stop eating or diet down to get an acting role? Would you say that was her telling girls to be fat? No. You wouldn’t. So why do it to someone just because they’re on YouTube talking about make up?