Healthy Breakfast Ideas!

Now if there was one meal I love above all others it has to be, without a doubt, breakfast. It’s always been about breakfast, and nowadays I seldom go very long without having a good and healthy meal at the start of my day. This hasn’t always been the case, however, as I used to […]

How to improve your descriptive writing

Descriptive writing in a novel is like the cream filling in a cake. Too much and it is overpowering, making the whole experience a little distracting for the consumer; too little and the result is boring and tasteless. The trick is finding that happy medium. But what makes good description? 1. Keep it basic. As […]

Is going to the gym boring?

The simple answer to this, many would assume, was either yes, or “you’re just a fitness freak and so you like it for some strange reason”. But I believe there are key reasons as to why you might be finding the gym boring, and why you are not enjoying the exercises. What follows are a […]

Becoming a healthy eater

Healthy eating is something that a lot of people dismiss quickly enough without putting in a great deal of effort. They’ve tried salads, they don’t like them so they give up; simple as that. But it doesn’t have to be like this. I firmly believe that anybody can be healthy and still eat “bad” food […]

Improving your written dialogue

The ability to write good dialogue is, quite possibly, a writer’s most important tool in his arsenal. Good dialogue breathes life into your characters, fleshes out and diversifies a world, and can tell a story better than any number of descriptive sentences. Bad dialogue will leave characters paper thin and a plot uninteresting and flat. […]

Dealing with a diet disaster!

This one is to those of us who have fallen off the wagon, so to speak, concerning their diet. Weeks have gone by of clean eating, you’ve dropped a few pounds, have been hitting the gym and you haven’t touched a McDonald’s in however long, and then a disaster. You slip up and demolish a […]

Dealing with writer’s block

To anybody who doesn’t write, whether creatively or otherwise, it may seem that being hit by writer’s block is really no big deal. It’s just a dry spell, right? So what? You can’t think of anything to write; it doesn’t matter. But to a writer, it is so much more than just “a dry spell”. […]