So... It's been a while. Today I'd like to try this again. I never promised to be reliable (as I'm sure you can tell) and I won't now but I'd at least like to try.
It's 2016 tomorrow and honestly I'm not looking forward to it. I've actually realised there's nothing to currently look forward to. This made me think about why I've been gone from blogging for so long and made it clear to me that I'd like to come back.
Blogging makes me anxious. I live in constant fear that someone from the 'real world' will find this blog. But that fear has held me back greatly and I don't want to feel that way any more. So I won't.
I guess what I want to say is that I refuse to let 2016 be the same as 2015. I want a good, happy year. And I know that blogging again will help me with that. I need to learn to forget the world around me because it's dragging me down.
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
September Favourites
I probably say this every time but I can't believe how fast September has gone. For me September was very busy and as I mentioned last time, I am tired. Like really tired. To be honest, it was a difficult month for me but today lets take a look at some of the good things. October is going to be another busy month but hopefully it will be more exciting because I have a few things planned that I'm looking forward to. But for now, here are some of my September favourites:
Friday, 25 September 2015
Beau Bloggers
I would like to start off this post by saying sorry for being away for a few weeks. Between school, homework, my family visiting, and my Saturday job it's been a little crazy in my little world. When I'm not tired, I'm asleep so blogging hasn't been on my mind too much. And now I have a cold which sucks but at least I have time to write a post, finally.
Today I've decided to talk about Beau Bloggers which is a blogging community I'm part of that turned one with past month.
Today I've decided to talk about Beau Bloggers which is a blogging community I'm part of that turned one with past month.
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Motivation Wednesday is A Terrible Name
In my last post I outlined the struggles I've faced in the past few years and it helped me realise I need help. Not from therapists or doctors I've had enough of those. I need to help myself. That is why I've made the decision to be healthy mentally and physically. I know it's two in the morning so my brain is a little muddled but I think day time Erin will agree with me. I don't believe that you can just decide to be happy one day but you can decide to be healthy. Or at least try to be and that's what I plan to do.
Sunday, 6 September 2015
September Sunsets and My School Experience
Yesterday was just so great. I saw three friends of mine. Two of which I had lost touch with and not seen for a year. I'd like to talk about my thoughts on the day. How it made me super happy but also confused and kind of sad. But to do that, I'll need to explain a little more so first lets talk about my experience with school.
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Dealing with Anxiety in School
My school experience has been pretty different to most people so when it comes to advice on school related issues, I'm not the best. But one thing I do know a whole lot about is anxiety. I'm probably anxious about 95% of the time and in school it gets much worse. So today I thought I'd share with you some of the things I do to reduce anxiety about and in school.
Sunday, 30 August 2015
August Favourites
Tomorrow August will be over. Meaning an entire month will have passed by in what felt like a week. VEDA will be over with just one more video. And more importantly, Summer will be over. I go back to school in three days and I am not even slightly prepared which is why today I decided to share my August favourites. I will post about going back to school on Wednesday when the reality of the situation becomes clearer to me. But until then, here are some things I liked this August:
Favourite Books:
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. It had been a while since I found a book that I genuinely felt I couldn't put down but this was one. I love the characters, the story, the style of writing. Everything I guess. I finished this on the boat home from the Isle of Man and got completely lost in it that I forgot about the possibility of sinking.
Truckers by Terry Pratchett. I haven't actually finished this book yet so if it turns out to be the worst ending ever, I'll unrecommend it next month. At first I struggled to get into this story because it's a little confusing for me when there are so many names and things to remember but now I'm really enjoying it. The idea is great and it's such a nice world to imagine while reading.
Favourite TV Shows:
Torchwood. In August my mum and I watched all of this show because we were obsessed. We love John Barrowman so we had to watch Torchwood and now we love him more. To be honest, I wasn't a fan of the last season but maybe that's just me. (I wasn't sure how to casually mention Janto so here it is casually being said. You're welcome.)
Game of Thrones. This month I finished season two and as much as it is taking me a long time to watch, I do love it. Despite not having a clue what's going on, I find myself trapped in the show every time I hear the opening titles.
Community. My brother and I watched the whole first season of this in one day and since then it has been a competition to see who can watch the rest first. I am losing at season 4 episode 3. Community is one of those shows I didn't expect much of but then absolutely loved. The only thing is; are supposed to like Jeff? Because my brother hates him and I only just started to find him not awful.
Favourite YouTube Channel:
NotJustBlonde. This is Zannah and I found her channel because she was doing VEDA this month. I've really enjoyed watching VEDA on her second channel and going back to watch everything I've missed.
Favourite Songs:
Knuckles- NotJustBlonde (Zannah) This song is amazing and makes me jealous of her musical abilities as I have none.
One for the Road- DoddleOddle (Dodie) Another musical person who writes amazing songs and makes me jealous
Flame- Sundara Karma
Favourite Films-
Paper Towns. This film was great and I wrote a full review here if you'd like to see that.
Fantastic Four. I heard a few people say they didn't like this film... but I did. Why I, personally, think this is is because there isn't as much action as you'd expect from a superhero movie. It's basically just a whole film of back story which I love but maybe that's not for everyone.
The Sisterhood of Night. Honestly, I don't know what this film was about or what actually happened but I know that it was pretty great and I know that when it was over I wanted to see it again.
Horns. I had no idea what this film was really about before watching it and so I had quite a nice surprise. (Well not exactly nice) I'd definitely recommend it and you an see how far into it you get before making a Harry Potter joke.
My Fake Fiance. We watched this film as a joke but I felt I should mention it because it made me laugh so much. My sister and I love films like this and she moved out this month so we had a day where we watched this, After the Ball (another great film), and the newest episodes of Bachelor in Paradise.
I had quite a lot of favourites this month. Comment below some of yours. It is currently 12:16 so I have missed the Sunday post by a little bit but I'm sure we can forget about that one today. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
Favourite Books:
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. It had been a while since I found a book that I genuinely felt I couldn't put down but this was one. I love the characters, the story, the style of writing. Everything I guess. I finished this on the boat home from the Isle of Man and got completely lost in it that I forgot about the possibility of sinking.
Truckers by Terry Pratchett. I haven't actually finished this book yet so if it turns out to be the worst ending ever, I'll unrecommend it next month. At first I struggled to get into this story because it's a little confusing for me when there are so many names and things to remember but now I'm really enjoying it. The idea is great and it's such a nice world to imagine while reading.
Favourite TV Shows:
Torchwood. In August my mum and I watched all of this show because we were obsessed. We love John Barrowman so we had to watch Torchwood and now we love him more. To be honest, I wasn't a fan of the last season but maybe that's just me. (I wasn't sure how to casually mention Janto so here it is casually being said. You're welcome.)
Game of Thrones. This month I finished season two and as much as it is taking me a long time to watch, I do love it. Despite not having a clue what's going on, I find myself trapped in the show every time I hear the opening titles.
Community. My brother and I watched the whole first season of this in one day and since then it has been a competition to see who can watch the rest first. I am losing at season 4 episode 3. Community is one of those shows I didn't expect much of but then absolutely loved. The only thing is; are supposed to like Jeff? Because my brother hates him and I only just started to find him not awful.
Favourite YouTube Channel:
NotJustBlonde. This is Zannah and I found her channel because she was doing VEDA this month. I've really enjoyed watching VEDA on her second channel and going back to watch everything I've missed.
Favourite Songs:
Knuckles- NotJustBlonde (Zannah) This song is amazing and makes me jealous of her musical abilities as I have none.
One for the Road- DoddleOddle (Dodie) Another musical person who writes amazing songs and makes me jealous
Flame- Sundara Karma
Favourite Films-
Paper Towns. This film was great and I wrote a full review here if you'd like to see that.
Fantastic Four. I heard a few people say they didn't like this film... but I did. Why I, personally, think this is is because there isn't as much action as you'd expect from a superhero movie. It's basically just a whole film of back story which I love but maybe that's not for everyone.
The Sisterhood of Night. Honestly, I don't know what this film was about or what actually happened but I know that it was pretty great and I know that when it was over I wanted to see it again.
Horns. I had no idea what this film was really about before watching it and so I had quite a nice surprise. (Well not exactly nice) I'd definitely recommend it and you an see how far into it you get before making a Harry Potter joke.
My Fake Fiance. We watched this film as a joke but I felt I should mention it because it made me laugh so much. My sister and I love films like this and she moved out this month so we had a day where we watched this, After the Ball (another great film), and the newest episodes of Bachelor in Paradise.
I had quite a lot of favourites this month. Comment below some of yours. It is currently 12:16 so I have missed the Sunday post by a little bit but I'm sure we can forget about that one today. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Paper Towns
On Friday this week my sister and I went to see the Paper Towns film and I loved it. Paper Towns is one of my favourite books so I had quite high expectations. I read the book a while ago so didn't really remember why it was a favourite of mine but after the seeing the film , that became clear. That's why today I thought I would share with you my thoughts on the film.
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Blog Tour Award
I was nominated by two amazing people to do the Blog Tour Award. They were Lou's World and Izzy K (you can go to there award posts by clicking on their names). This was actually meant to be posted on a specific Monday but because I had two I decided to ignore that rule and post on a Wednesday. Sorry about that. I actually just didn't have any ideas of what else to write today and I was excited to do this.
Friday, 14 August 2015
Isle of Man 2015
It was a very grey day but this is the Isle of Man as we were getting closer on the boat there. |
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Erin Writes #4 The Fosters
Just when you thought I would stop talking about The Fosters, I come back with a whole post about it. But this isn't going to be me talking about how great the show is or the fact that I ship Jonnor like there's no tomorrow. This is, finally, another Erin Writes post. I made this series when I first started blogging and since then have only written three posts on it. There have been various different reasons as to why I only did three but more recently it was due to my complete lack of inspiration. I went for around two months without writing a single word for any of my books. It didn't bother me too much though until I started watching The Fosters when I realised how long it had been since I had written.
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Sunday, 9 August 2015
Market Bosworth: Getting Lost in a Good Way
This time last week I was driving down to Market Bosworth to stay for two nights at the Bosworth Hall hotel. It was a pretty amazing place and I had a great time. I'd never heard of Market Bosworth before so my mum and I spent most of the time looking around the town and getting lost. Today I thought I'd share the pictures I took while there. They're not great but that doesn't matter I guess.
This is one of the doors into the hotel. It's a very big place and the rooms at the front, here, are mostly big halls for weddings, and the kitchens. |
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
July Favourites
I'd first of all like to apologise for missing my Friday and Sunday post last week. I know that I've only just started the new schedule and I'm already not sticking to it but I was busy. And I also had one of those moments of fear when I was convinced people I know will read my blog which if you've been here before, you'll have heard me mention. But it's fine now and I decided to keep going with my July favourites.
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
What's Going Wrong with YouTube?
A few days ago Bry and Candice uploaded a video onto their channel LifeofBribry called What's going wrong with YouTube?. This video brought me back to a blog post I was going to write a long time ago but never did. So now I am.
Sunday, 26 July 2015
Comic Con and Clothes Haul
In the past month I have collected most of what I bought from various places and decided to show you in a big haul. Honestly, I don't think this is everything but I can't remember what's new because it all feels like so long ago. A lot of the clothes we're bought by my mum or grandma and the everything else was bought by me because I have a job now which is great. If I can remember I will put the price of everything but I wouldn't count on that. Anyway, here is what I got:
Friday, 24 July 2015
A Summer of Organisation
For me the summer holiday has always been a strange time. Obviously I'm happy I don't have school but it's also an excuse not to do anything. I don't go outside at all and I don't see people who aren't in my family so it becomes boring. On Wednesday I had my last CAMHS (therapy) appointment which is good but it also means I have to keep up with my "positive mood" on my own. This is why I have to be more organised than usual.
Sunday, 19 July 2015
Summer To Do List part 3
Lets pretend that the reason I missed my weekday post was because I've been super busy doing important things. And lets pretend I haven't been spending every day watching The Fosters and every night crying over Jonnor. No of course that didn't happen. Today I got away from those really important things I was doing and thought I'd share with you the final part of my Summer To Do List. You can see part 2 here.
My terrible picture of the pink sky |
Sunday, 12 July 2015
June Favourites
I know, I know. It's late but I was excited about all the other posts I had planned and just never got round to doing a favourites. There are quite a few favourites this month, especially TV and films so lets get started.
Favourite Films:
Favourite Films:
Super 8. This easily became one of my favourites films. There isn't anything I didn't love about it and would definitely recommend it. For me, the friendship between the group of boys the film is based around made is so real and beautiful in a way I've not seen in a film before.
Men, Women and Children. I didn't know much about this film but I had heard quite a lot of good things about it and rightly so. I tend to get emotional invested in any film, book, or TV show but this was different. It felt as if I were switching from understanding one character to then understanding another. Each person seemed believable and no one was romanticized for the audience to like them more. This made the film better because it was like real people with real lives.
Serenity. Obviously you have to watch Firefly first or it isn't as good. But oh boy is this film good. Anything I want to say will give stuff away so I won't say anything, just watch it.
Favourite TV shows:
Firefly. Watch this before Serenity.
Pretty Little Liars. It started again and it's not long left till we find out who A is (I think). I've been enjoying the new series so far. Only problem is that we need more Ezra please.
Orange Is The New Black. I waited very patiently for the new series of this show and it certainly did not take me long to watch it. Something that happened about half way through the series really upset me which ruined the rest a little but it was still very good.
Songs:
Fallout Shelter
I don't know why I got obsessed with this game in June but I did and still slightly am.
Hope you enjoyed my late June favourites. Comment below if you've liked some of the same things in June or July or any month. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
Thursday, 9 July 2015
8 Photos of Happiness
Last week I was tagged by the completely amazing Lou's World to do the eight photos of happiness tag. You can her post here which is great and you should definitely check it out. The tag was created by Ariel who also has wonderful blog.
The rules of this tag are:
Thank your nominator and link them in the post
Link the creator Ariel
Post 8 photos of happiness (the photos can be anything that represents a moment, object, place or feeling that makes you happy)
Pop in a brief description of the photo, why you chose it or let the photos do the talking!
Spread the happiness and tag up to ten other bloggers!
This post is a little strange for me because I've never shown a picture of myself on this blog before so I'm a little nervous. Before I felt I could deny that this blog is mine if someone I know were to find it but now I can't so never mind. I think it'll be better that way. When looking through them, I noticed that my hair is straight all the time but in reality it is a big, curly mess which is misleading but great for me. I guess that's all I needed to say so lets look at the pictures.
The rules of this tag are:
Thank your nominator and link them in the post
Link the creator Ariel
Post 8 photos of happiness (the photos can be anything that represents a moment, object, place or feeling that makes you happy)
Pop in a brief description of the photo, why you chose it or let the photos do the talking!
Spread the happiness and tag up to ten other bloggers!
This post is a little strange for me because I've never shown a picture of myself on this blog before so I'm a little nervous. Before I felt I could deny that this blog is mine if someone I know were to find it but now I can't so never mind. I think it'll be better that way. When looking through them, I noticed that my hair is straight all the time but in reality it is a big, curly mess which is misleading but great for me. I guess that's all I needed to say so lets look at the pictures.
Sunday, 5 July 2015
Zoella
Two years ago I started watching Zoella on YouTube. This was when she just hit one million subscribers. It's difficult not to love Zoe's personality within the videos she makes. But as her channel grew, I unsubscribed. This was mostly because the content of her channel didn't interest me anymore. I just wasn't much of a fan and to be honest I wouldn't say I really am now. A few days ago I started to watch some of Zoe's vlogs and now I'm subscribed to her second channel. Today I thought I would write this post to explain to you why I find Zoella inspiring.
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Summer To Do List part 2
It seems like I'm only ever going to write these posts when I'm sat outside in the sun. That isn't something I do often and I've been making it look that way. I think it's just because I begin to get excited about summer (despite it being ridiculously hot right now. I feel like I may burn to death). If you'd like to see my first Summer To Do List you can click here. I think this will be in three parts so hopefully the next will also be soon. But until then I hope you enjoy my summer to do list part 2.
Eddie just casually acting like I wasn't about to sit there |
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Starting To Wear Makeup - Beau Bloggers Collaboration
In the blogging community I am part of, called Beau Bloggers, we were given a challenge which was to pair up and both talk about something within a given theme. I was paired with the wonderful Izzy K (who's blog and YouTube channel I will link here) and we were given a problem and a solution. For this we decided to talk about when you should start to wear makeup as it is something Izzy would like to talk about and is relevant to my post An Awkward Question: Makeup from about a week ago. If you'd like to see a more detailed description of my thoughts on makeup, you can read that post.
Sunday, 21 June 2015
All I Know Now Book Review
About a week ago I wrote a post about Carrie Hope Fletcher (which you can see here) and so today I decided I should write a review of her book. I'm quite a slow reader and All I Know Now only took about 10 days to read which is good, for me. And I found the whole book to be inspiring and one that I could just read over and over again.
Thursday, 18 June 2015
An Awkward Question: MakeUp
My last An Awkward Question post was about YouTube and I'd like to thank those of you who gave advice, it was very helpful. So today I thought I'd write another. If you don't know what An Awkward Question is, it is a blogging series I just started where I take a question or dilemma I have and ask you for your opinion. Most of things in this series will not normally be considered to be awkward but because I have a strange brain that struggles to understand most aspects of human life, I think that it is. My second awkward question of the series is: How do I start wearing makeup?
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Summer To Do List part 1
I am not much of a summer person. Currently I am sat in the garden feeling super uncomfortable and having spiders invade my personal space, in the hope that my skin tone can possibly change from ghost to fresh corpse. (That was a joke but seriously I am unhealthily pale. Go and sit in the sun if you can, it helps with staying alive and stuff.) Anyway, I have never really enjoyed summer but this year I seem quite excited about it so today I thought I would share with you some of the things I would like to do this Summer:
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Carrie Hope Fletcher
When I was around 12, I found Carrie Fletcher (Its Way Past My Bedtime) on YouTube. It was about 11pm and I had been watching Danisnotonfire when I saw a video he made with Carrie. I instantly knew who she was because a friend of mine had said she watched her channel. At first I thought I'll just watch one video but I think we all know that on YouTube that sentence is laughed at frequently. Needless to say, I was awake till stupidly late watching all of Carrie's videos. I've always found I could relate to her in one way or the other. Back then I think it was because we both have curly hair, and my brother is also in a band (not a famous one, obviously. And to be honest I've never actually heard them before so they could be terrible but that isn't the point). Now I've come to find many more reasons that I find Carrie Fletcher so inspirational.
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
May Favourites
If I'm honest, I feel like May was over in the space of a week. Which is why this months favourites are going to be a little different. I don't feel like enough happened during May for me have the usually type of favourites post but I guess that doesn't really matter. So here are my May favourites for 2015:
Sunday, 17 May 2015
Charity Shop Haul
Over the past month I have been very lucky because almost every time I go into a charity shop I see books that are on my list to buy. This is great because they're super cheap especially compared to the price you'd pay in a book shop. So today I thought I'd share with you some of the things I've bought from Charity shops recently.
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
A Video by Dodie Clark
I hadn't planned to post today but after watching Dodie's most recent Vedim video I decided I would. (The video is called My Brain (tour diary) and you can see it by clicking here.) Dodie has always been a YouTuber I look up to for many different reasons which became quite clear in this video. It's been a long time, in my opinion, since someone on YouTube has been so honest and forward about a situation. A lot of what I'm going to say may not make sense if you don't watch the video. It's about twenty minutes long but I'd say it is worth those minutes.
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
An Awkward Question: YouTube
I know I've neglected some of my other blogging series recently but today I decided to start a new one. An Awkward Question is going to take a question or dilemma which I find awkward and ask for advice or opinions from you. These questions will be things which usually aren't considered awkward or much of a problem but I do as I worry about everything so much. So my first Awkward Question is: How do I YouTube?
Sunday, 3 May 2015
It's May...When Did That Happen?
Recently my blog has felt like a constant circle of apologising and complaining. This is something I never wanted to happen. I always wanted to be completely honest on here about whats going on in my life which isn't always what people want to hear. Today I've decided to explain things and tell you some of my new ideas for The Art of Being Invisible in the future. I'm actually in a pretty good mood, which is new for me, so I'm looking forward to getting back into writing.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
London 2015
I have been awful at posting recently for many different reasons. But I'm not going to go into that now because I would much rather talk about London.
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
March Favourites
Honestly March wasn't a good month for me. I didn't post on here much for many different reasons. As you may know from my previous post, my mental health hasn't been so great recently so I just didn't feel like I could write anything. And there were times when I was genuinely busy (I like went outside and stuff). A few days I'd planned on posting but got suddenly very scared that someone I know will find my blog and I couldn't do it. But I got here in the end and this is my, kind of late, March Favourites.
Monday, 6 April 2015
So...
It's been a tough past month...
scratch that, lets say year. (Maybe lifetime... that's not
important). In my head there are two types of depressed people. Those
who suffer trauma in life. They can have therapy and one day be
cured. Others who are born with depression waiting to hit. Me,well,
I'm the latter. The one with no real reason to be sad. The one with
the 'perfect' life.
I've spent a long time wishing to be
someone else. Anyone really. The popular, selfie taking, too much
make up wearing kind of girl. Or the outcast who's not afraid to be
different. The goth with black hair, thick eyeliner and an unhealthy
obsession with My Chemical Romance (pause for sad fans to wipe their
tears). Literally anyone but myself. I wish people would stop telling
me to love myself. I wish the endless quotes of “you're perfect”
and “embrace being different” would stop. Why can't you see that
I can't? I could never love me. You don't have that emotion, you
teach it. Now, I've been doing a fairly good job of teaching myself
maths and history but I can't do this. But why? Why am I the screw
up? The train wreck of the family or friendship group. I've lost
everything (despite seeming so...whole on the outside) and I've
fallen so many times. It hurts to be alive. It hurts to see this
body, think these thoughts, hear this voice that I've hated, always.
They don't change like the world around me does. So why am I expected
to learn to love all of that? Why do I have to tolerate all of these
things and embrace them as if it's something I'm proud of? I case you
haven't noticed, I'm not.
I don't love myself, I tolerate
myself. I go through the day scared of what will be in the seconds
that follow. Taking each breathe as if it's my last. And wishing it
to be. I don't want to die. No, the idea of death confuses and scares
me for many reasons (I think I've watched to much Supernatural and
now I just think no one's ever really dead. You can imagine the shock
I got when Cory Monteith never came back to Glee). But living is
unbearable. Honestly I have a fear. A fear of being in any kind of
pain. It keeps me from dying but it keeps me from living too. So no,
I won't kill myself. But I will spend every day wishing I could.
Recently I've been reading the book
How To Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran and it's inspired me. I thought
maybe it would change everything... and you never know, it might. But
I think it's time I killed this Erin and built myself a new girl.
Only trouble is, I just don't know how. How do you make you're self
confident (and please let me stop you before you tell me “fake it
till you make it” because I do not need to hear that broken record)
and how do you brake away from this person that has been you for so
long? If you were looking for the answer to this question, sorry,
maybe try a Google search.
So I'm sorry I've been gone. And I'm
sorry that when I have been here, it's a little disconnected. But
I've been stuck... feeling hopeless and lonely until it became too
much to handle. I've been crying and hurting over this sense of self
hatred and regret so much that I couldn't just be okay for two
seconds. And I couldn't kill myself so it felt like no one cared.
Like I would only truly be heard if I did. I guess that's why so many
people are accused of attention seeking, because for me it partly
would be. As bad as that sounds, it's true. How do I build a new
girl? How do I live in a world that won't let me? And how do I go on
when this is my forever?
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
I don't know what I'm doing
Recently I've not been posting much on my blog which is something I'm really upset about. I wanted to carry on writing on schedule but that's proved harder than I imagined. I've decided today to just tell you that I've been going through a really difficult time and haven't felt like I could possibly write anything. This is just something I thought I should explain but when I feel better, I will try to keep posting. Thank you for reading, sorry it's been short and sorry I haven't been posting. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Erin Writes #3 Writers Block
I can go months without having a single word to write in my books. It can be very annoying, especially if I've set myself a deadline. And I find that if I force myself to write, it is never as good. So today I thought I would share with you some tips to help with writers block.
Thursday, 5 March 2015
February Favourites
I know that recently I haven't been posting much and what I have been posting isn't as good as I'd like it to be but today I thought I would come back with a favourites post. These are some of the types of posts I enjoy writing most and although February hasn't been the best month for me, I thought I would share with you what I did like.
Sunday, 22 February 2015
Depression- A Tumblr Post
I have not been good at posting recently. I missed about three opportunities in the past two weeks when I could have written but I just didn't. I don't know why. Today I won't be writing anything too big I just wanted share with you a post I found on Tumblr a few days ago about depression.
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
The Liebster Award 3
I have been nominated by Umaybe Beautiful, Just Another Girl, and SophieAliceInWonderland to do the Liebster award. I have already done this twice but seen as I loved writing the first two and this one will be a little different I thought I'd do it again. All three of these girls have amazing blogs that you should definitely check out by clicking on their names.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The Taming of The Tights Book Review
The Taming of The Tights is the third book in Louise Rennison's Withering Tights series. I read the first two books a while ago and finished this one last week. I would give this book about three stars but I do think that's because I loved the first two so much that it fits in with them. If you haven't read or didn't enjoy Withering Tights, I don't think you will appreciate this book in the same way. (Warning: This review will contain spoilers!)
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
January Favourites 2015
Lat week I missed another Sunday post which, again, I'm sorry about. But I thought today I'd share some of my January favourites although I have been doing it a little early in the past few months.
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Life Update Type Thing
Today I just wanted to give a little life update of what I've been doing and some of my plans. First I'd like talk about why missed a post on Sunday last week. It wasn't that I didn't have time to write or anything like that, it was because I didn't feel like that day I had anything thing to write about. Even though I have notebooks full of ideas for posts, I didn't feel like any of that would be as good as I'd like it to be. I was disappointed that this was first time of the year I went off schedule but I would of been more disappointed if I wrote something I didn't like.
On a much happier note, I'm going to see Bethan Leadley (who is Musical Bethan on YouTube) on Saturday. I've wanted to go and see her on tour since she announced it, especially when I found out Dodie Clark will be with her, but I couldn't find any one to go with me. Then yesterday my sister said she would come (which is good but I feel weird about dragging her along when she doesn't know anything about Bethan) and I'm so excited now because I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
Last week I had my third CAMHS appointment. (CAMHS is the place I'll be going to for therapy sessions.) I've been there before when I first had panic attacks and it was just a really great place. This time I'll be having ITP therapy (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) which is specifically for depression and I'm quite hopeful about it. So far, I've only really been getting to know the person I'm working with and even though therapy hasn't officially started, it feels like it's already been helpful.
I may have mentioned in another post that I've recently been having friend problems which for a long time have really been affecting me. Now I still talk about it sometimes and I do think about it but I feel now like that isn't as important. That's been helpful for me because it's been difficult to loose a friend who, my whole life, has been there and to not have all my school friends either. It's made worse because I'm not good at talking to people and making friends so a lot of the time I've been alone. This is still a problem I have but realising I need to let go of certain people in my life has been great.
A few days ago I was watching Supernatural (which I do every day) and it was an episode about a group of friends who film everything in their life so they're basically filming 24 hours a day. This was something I found really interesting and decided to do something similar. I won't be filming everything (also the group of people in Supernatural turned into werewolves which I don't plan on doing) but I'd like to start because one day I'd like to make YouTube videos and this will be good practice.
Last week I went see Into The Woods which I wasn't really impressed by. It felt like they weren't sure which way to go with the whole idea. Like there were bits I found really funny but then others that were so serious that the humor was almost inappropriate. There were three things I liked about the film: Chris Pine's song (Agony), when Rapunzel's Prince fell off the wall, and the acting from all of the cast. I've also really been enjoying Hollyoaks recently as Crazy Will is back and as bad as it probably is, he's my favourite person ever on the show. So far in my reading challenge I have finished two books and I'm close to my third which is great because I think I'll be able to complete this years challenge. You can follow that on my Good Reads page here.
This has been a bit of an update of what I've been doing recently. Hope you enjoyed it, I just felt like sharing some of this with you. Remember, you can follow me on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter (there are links at the top of the page and the side) for more I've what I've been doing. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
On a much happier note, I'm going to see Bethan Leadley (who is Musical Bethan on YouTube) on Saturday. I've wanted to go and see her on tour since she announced it, especially when I found out Dodie Clark will be with her, but I couldn't find any one to go with me. Then yesterday my sister said she would come (which is good but I feel weird about dragging her along when she doesn't know anything about Bethan) and I'm so excited now because I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
Last week I had my third CAMHS appointment. (CAMHS is the place I'll be going to for therapy sessions.) I've been there before when I first had panic attacks and it was just a really great place. This time I'll be having ITP therapy (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) which is specifically for depression and I'm quite hopeful about it. So far, I've only really been getting to know the person I'm working with and even though therapy hasn't officially started, it feels like it's already been helpful.
I may have mentioned in another post that I've recently been having friend problems which for a long time have really been affecting me. Now I still talk about it sometimes and I do think about it but I feel now like that isn't as important. That's been helpful for me because it's been difficult to loose a friend who, my whole life, has been there and to not have all my school friends either. It's made worse because I'm not good at talking to people and making friends so a lot of the time I've been alone. This is still a problem I have but realising I need to let go of certain people in my life has been great.
A few days ago I was watching Supernatural (which I do every day) and it was an episode about a group of friends who film everything in their life so they're basically filming 24 hours a day. This was something I found really interesting and decided to do something similar. I won't be filming everything (also the group of people in Supernatural turned into werewolves which I don't plan on doing) but I'd like to start because one day I'd like to make YouTube videos and this will be good practice.
Last week I went see Into The Woods which I wasn't really impressed by. It felt like they weren't sure which way to go with the whole idea. Like there were bits I found really funny but then others that were so serious that the humor was almost inappropriate. There were three things I liked about the film: Chris Pine's song (Agony), when Rapunzel's Prince fell off the wall, and the acting from all of the cast. I've also really been enjoying Hollyoaks recently as Crazy Will is back and as bad as it probably is, he's my favourite person ever on the show. So far in my reading challenge I have finished two books and I'm close to my third which is great because I think I'll be able to complete this years challenge. You can follow that on my Good Reads page here.
This has been a bit of an update of what I've been doing recently. Hope you enjoyed it, I just felt like sharing some of this with you. Remember, you can follow me on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter (there are links at the top of the page and the side) for more I've what I've been doing. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye
Thursday, 15 January 2015
The Blog Share Tag
Along with the rest of the Beau Bloggers,I was tagged to do the Blog Share Tag. I was tagged by the wonderful Lou's World (You can see her blog here). There's not much else to say so I hope you enjoy.
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Erin Writes #2 Inspiration
This month the group I am apart of, the Beau Bloggers, have a theme of inspiration so I thought I would write about the things that inspire me to write. Inspiration is found everywhere in life and one small thing can come from all different places of inspiration making creations extra beautiful.
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Amanda Prowse Christmas for One Book Review
This was the book I read over Christmas and only finished a few days ago. Over all I thought it was good as before reading I had extremely low expectations. My opinion was definitely changed. (Warning: review contains spoilers)
Sunday, 4 January 2015
Erin Writes #1
The one thing in life I wish for most for myself is to write a book and have it published. It's my dream to see a book I wrote on shelves in Waterstones and it sounds strange but I wish that one day Carrie Hope Fletcher (who is Itswaypastmybedtime on YouTube) will read a book of mine.
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