The Mother of All Problems : A Nerd's Guide to Self Preservation

I promised one, here's one. I'll go genre-wise, first to be purchased and offline and published and then free and online on Wattpad, so feel free to skip the things you don't like. Don't forget to share this and follow the blog if you like these books!                        (>▽<) First comes the savior of my Aphrodite heart 1. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid This is about Emma, a not-so-bookwormish girl, who continues developing throughout her story, and her two true loves- Jesse, her husband who was said to have died in an accident on their honeymoon, and her fiance Sam, who is also her friend/co-worker from high school. One day, a while after her engagement to Sam, her "dead" husband is said to be found on a remote island in the middle of an ocean, which complicates her life massively. This story talks about how one true love isn't a thing, and true love can happen many times, for true love means to l...

I wrote a short story. It's called Helen. It's the story of Helen of Troy Sparta in her perspective. Here it goes-   They always called me Helen of Sparta,  or Helen of Troy. But they never asked me what I was. Even I was doubtful about my identity. Sometimes I felt I belonged to Sparta, sometimes to Troy. But in the end, I would always end up crying in my chambers, for that choice was not mine. It never had been.    As children, my mother often told me and my siblings about the stories surrounding our birth. Among them was a universal rumor that I was so beautiful, that I was in no way the daughter of my aging father and less than beauteous mother. Everyone claimed that I was no mortal child. My mother never agreed with the people who said it, but she did not oppose them either. All that mattered was King Tyndareus loved me like his daughter and treated me as he did my brothers and sister, doting on my every move and feeding me sweets. Tucking me into be...

... don't tell your friend to forgive their family who hurts them. Look, I understand that your bond with your family is so good, that you'll forgive them for anything. Stealing your chocolates, ruining your watercolors and clothes, not supporting your choices, no matter what happens, they're your family, and you're theirs.  That doesn't mean you're not right to be mad at them. You are. You're human, and you know that so are they, so you forgive their mistakes. You stay mad at them or you forgive them. That's your decision. But disapproval and non-supportive behaviour is very different from verbal and physical abuse that scars and damages a person's life and every experience and relationship they ever have, forever. Hitting someone or calling them useless and worthless is very different from cutting the clothes and hair off of your sibling's Barbie doll.  The damage that one of those things causes can be repaired, or the doll can be replaced. But...

... don't ask your friend who comes from a bad family, who has issues, to stay positive. No, no, don't say "try and stay positive" either. When someone from a bad family rants to you about something, the appropriate responses are: 1. Bro that sucks, you want me to stab them for you? 2. Let's get some food and cuss them out of existence. 3. Yo, you want me to do your math homework for you? You can take a nap while I do it. Nothing less. Nothing more. Why? You might ask. Why should I not ask them to stay positive? Life is yin and yang, good and bad, bad within the good, good within the bad.  Yeah, but when life is more yang than yin, your friend might shove your positivity where the sun don't shine and get mad at you. They want their thoughts to be vacationing in Mauritius, when in reality, their thoughts are about to jump into an active volcano in Java, Indonesia.  They might not say it to your face, or show it, but inside, they're like "Oh God, it...