Tag Archives: sadness

Loneliness vs Toxic Relationships

This stems from another comment on a forum where somebody talked about how they stayed in a toxic relationship because they feared loneliness.  Other people joined in by saying that they came out too broken to be anything other than … Continue reading

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Poetry Day: From the Edges

(Not really sure of where this one came from.  It might have been a fantasy concept, but I think it’s more about people who go unnoticed.  These are the ones who watch what is going on, but don’t draw any … Continue reading

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Poetry Day: Fallen Behind

(This one feels like it’s rather self-explanatory.  Came from a time when I saw friends posting about doing all of these fun things.  I couldn’t go or do the same because money and time were limited.  So, I started to … Continue reading

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Poetry Day: Even When I Win, I Lose

(This one probably happened after I was forced to go to something and then got lectured because I didn’t look comfortable.  Yet, I chose an activity and the people I was with didn’t take it seriously.  So, it left me … Continue reading

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Questions 3: Love and Pain on Valentine’s Day

Yeah.  This isn’t romantic at all, but Valentine’s Day isn’t really my holiday.  It does get me thinking about how closely linked love and pain are.  To be in love, you open yourself to another and expose yourself to the … Continue reading

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The Pain of Being Told ‘Just Be Positive’

You might not be surprised to learn that I am a negative person.  Pessimism tends to be my default if I’m stressed, tired, or not paying attention to my surroundings.  Comes from many things, but I’m not getting into that.  … Continue reading

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7 Tips to Handling Grief and Mourning in Fiction

As I said, grief and mourning is a subplot in War of Nytefall: Ravenous.  It was very difficult to touch on this while the majority of the book dealt with action, humor, and Desirae’s seductiveness.  I kept having to remind myself … Continue reading

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Tears were Shed and Pain was Sustained

This was a really long and tough week.  Without going into any details, a friend passed away early on and that messed with my head a lot.  It was only a few days earlier that I stumbled onto a letter … Continue reading

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Keeping Your Emotions in Check When Writing

One of the things I had to learn way back in high school when I started writing was how to control my own emotions.  Not block them off completely, but temper them and access the ones I needed for certain … Continue reading

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Tears of a Battered Hero

Symbol of courage Expected to bend Yet never break Ignoring the human side That all heroes should possess * A limit has been reached Tears flow Down cheeks marred with dirt And blood friend and foe A heroic spirit crumbles … Continue reading

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