Hello everyone, and welcome back to this quaint little blog. To celebrate the progress of my new novel, I decided to give this little site a bit of a facelift, which is why you see this new theme today. In fact, the picture of the butterflies is one that I took myself; I’m quite interested in photography, alongside my writing, which has always seemed like a good mix to me. Journalism and fiction, tangled together.

Anyways, I thought it was kind of unfortunate that a new wave of writer’s block – the most dreaded thing for a writer – has crashed upon me. My book is frozen in place. I was hoping, honestly, that writing on my blog would help jumpstart my brain for novel-writing mode again.

Basically, my train of thought right now goes like this: I need to alter the way that I’m living my life. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again. Part of my first “transformation” involved me chopping off all of my hair (which I’ve now decided to grow out again, and that will be a tiring, long process), erasing my former work and starting fresh, and cleansing myself of relationships with people that I didn’t want to be around. This will be mostly the same, really. In order to access the part of myself that writes the best, I need to clear the rest of myself – and if you’ve found yourself in a particularly nasty ditch in your life, I recommend doing the same thing. As humans, we need to treat ourselves with constant care and love and respect, not just on the outside but on the inside too. We must nourish ourselves not only with nutrition but with affection! If you don’t cleanse all parts of yourself, you can’t do whatever it is that you want to achieve. I have learned this from experience. There have been times in my life where I wasn’t happy with myself, and I assure you that everyone goes through this, but the thing is that few people try to change that. I know that it sounds incredibly cheesy, but I can’t stress enough how important it is that we all take good care of ourselves – our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our relationships with other people. I know this now. I don’t know if my words or my writing will influence people, but I’m at least going to try.

So the next time you find yourself in an undesired situation, I hope that you know what course of action to take.