#specific advice

I’d like to start giving tips on how to deal with specific problems again, like I’ve done for period pains and social phobia.

So far, the ones I’m planning are headache tips and cleaning bathroom tips, because this is an advice and self care blog and I think those qualify.

If anyone has any suggestions for more I could write for, please let me know because I’d like it to be relevant to you all as well as myself 💛

Hi Nonnie!  Thanks for the question!  The fact that you want it to be accurate is excellent!  My main tip here is research! Read everything,  talk to people about their experiences and if you can,  book an appointment for yourself. First hand experience is always a handy viewpoint to write from. 

Write, write and rewrite the scenes. Don’t worry about getting it 100% accurate in the beginning, you can always come back and refine the experiences, as they need to change to effect your story line or feed the reader information about the protagonist. 

In my personal experience of therapists, as with all people, each one is entirely different. They all have a different feel, a different location, a different set of morals, and advice. So accuracy of portrayal can widely vary. I have seen a number of them in my life, three of which spring to memory- one was a tall casual man with crazy hair that acted like my wildcard friend - another was a calming, quiet lady who acted like my spiritual journey leader - and the other was the most average man you’ve ever met, he was big on meditation and listening. Every therapists room is different too- I’ve never once laid on a couch in one.

Goodluck!  Hope this helps! 

I’ve left this sitting in my inbox for a long while because…there’s no cookie-cutter way to go about this. Moments like these can greatly depend on your characters and their personal ways of showing emotion, which will affect your scene greatly. But I can try my best to help with what I can! And, of course, I’m not the best source in general because the high school I graduated from wasn’t particularly filled with close friends, I didn’t move anywhere else, and neither have most of my friends at this point

I would recommend:

Focusing on body language; this way, if your characters aren’t saying what they feel, the reader can get a sense of what it is they’re really thinking.

Feel free to show a variety of responses within your characters! They don’t all need to respond the same way about it.

There’s a wide variety of reasons for people to snap and start killing people. Some very common ones include:

Vengeance/to get even

An extreme dislike of a certain kind of person/specific people

To “punish” something/something

The belief that the world is better off without certain people