Yssabela’s Reviews > Beach Read > Status Update

discussing about family problems makes me nauseous.

so as a writer, you really have to experience things and put yourself in that situation in order to gain some perspective that you’ll write in your own stories.

Janie was right. Our emotions really do shape the way we express ourselves—writing novels, painting, or even dancing—that it isn't just about mediocrity or laziness. I like how the book highlights the importance of finding inspiration beyond ourselves. Doing something what 'you' love instead of what you're 'told' to love.

Janie was right about how our emotions greatly affect the way we express ourselves in our work—could be through writing a novel, making art, or dancing—it is important that we still find inspiration elsewhere, because it's the only way to lift our knees back up.

A few words and I already had a big fat crush on Gus. There's probably more to it under his grumpiness.