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I don’t really feel like writing today. And that is okay. You see, the thing with having a hobby is that, people start to think that we would enjoy doing it every day and every second of our lives, which is just wrong. Of course there are days when I dread the very thought of…
The other day, I tried something new: I sat completely still for several minutes in the middle of a busy day. No, I wasn’t sleeping, in case you’re wondering. I merely took several minutes to decompress right there on my desk, in-between my bustling schedule. For around ten minutes, my small desk became my solace…
Lately, I feel like life has been throwing me with rocks. Not the literal kind, of course. I meant figurative rocks, which has been causing me a great deal of stress.
Fear is a language everybody speaks. It lingers like a silent whisper in the middle of the night that keeps you awake until daybreak. It awaits in ambush for your vulnerable moments, and hunts you down whenever the chance for first strike arrives. My whole life—I’ve been afraid of so many frivolous things that it…
If you’ve been following me on Instagram lately, you’ll know that I’m currently planning for my next novel project. It’s a long time coming project, since the last time I published a novel was at the end of 2017—I couldn’t even remember how many times readers and my editor had asked me if I was…
If you’ve been following me on Instagram, then you’d know that I’ve had this “writing prompt challenge” thing going on for awhile. To put it simply, I post a question sticker on my Instagram Stories every Saturday, and my followers can submit one writing prompt each to me. During the following day, I would sort…
If you’re a writer, or an artist in general, it’s imperative that you take care of yourselves from time to time. I’ve talked about how you could decompress during a busy week, which are the small things you could do every single day to keep your stress levels in check. I’ve also talked about going…
“How do you manage to keep on doing this?” one of my team member in the office asked me, right after my boss gave me a stern warning for not delivering the targeted completion date of my project. “Why aren’t you more upset? How could you be so strong?” I remember I just stared at…
Alicia Lidwina 