The Fairy Tale Complex is all about helping women to get their lives together.

It’s stories with a little inkling of personal philosophy, it’s told entirely from a first person narration.
The reader gets it that they are not being lectured, their situation is actually been explored from a place of understanding.

I remember when an ex of mine (we have children) was basically not serious about moving forward.
I couldn’t wait and one of the things I said explicitly to him was…
While this is one of your options.
This is my life.

Recently I’ve had to do the same thing again.
I’ve had to look at a situation where I was just someone’s personal convenience, I was basically something to do.
I had to say to myself that while I am his extra curricular activities… this is my life.

Notice this time, I didn’t say it to him. I said it to myself.
It starts with you.
It’s your life.
You could die tomorrow and this person would find another activity or personal convenience.
This is ideally your life.
Your life is not a fairly tale.
Your life is not a complex.

One of the hallmarks of writing is that it’s a form of journalism.
Journaling is a good tool to help you when you are overwhelmed and to help put things into perspective.

I always encourage my readers and fan club to write out their feelings.
It’s good therapy and sometimes when you read it over, it helps put the situation into a broader perspective.
Who knows your journal might be the story the world needs.

I want to emphasize in closing…

The simplest explanation to a complicated situation is most often the truth.
Skip the complexity and see it as it is at first glance or face value.
Do not try to figure it out from fifty different angles, only to discover in the future, it was exactly as you perceive it to be.

Life is a journey.
It’s not a destination.
Don’t be done by any one experience.
The best is still yet to come.
There are a lot of places you haven’t been.
People you have not met.
Work on yourself.
Broaden your horizon.
Don’t be sold by any one exception.
The best is still yet to come.


Crystal Evans.