Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

"...Force our smiles, baby, half dead/From comparing myself to everyone else around me..." The quote above comes from one of my favorite Fall Out Boy songs entitled, " I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) ". While listening to this song the other day I got the great idea to write a blog post about something that stuck out to me in the song.  When Pete Wentz wrote the song he was suicidal and had tons of "bad" thoughts on his mind (hence the title). It's actually considered to be a form of a suicide note. Now, I talk about suicide and depression a lot but what I never talked about was the feeling of being depressed because of comparisons.  I think one of the main reasons a lot of people get down on themselves is because we compare ourselves to everyone else around us. To be truthful, I'm extremely guilty of this. Most of my years of misery came from me comparing myself to everyone els...

"You are what you love, not who loves you!" Fall Out Boy (Save Rock & Roll) First off: the MonumenTour was the best concert I had the chance to go to since Paramore headlined the Honda Civic Tour in 2010! Not only did I get to rock out in the pit, only a couple of feet from the stage with my two favorite bands but I received words of inspiration. You know when you go somewhere and the person speaking seems like they took some insight from your life before forming their speech. That was the entire night for me this past Saturday.  A major theme of the night was don't give up and any dream is possible no matter how stupid it may sound. The lead singer from New Politics stated, " this all started with a stupid dream but I am here today to tell you that sometimes stupidity is all you need !" WOW! That was the start of the night. Paramore and Fall Out Boy continued with their encouragement. After suffering from countless rejections from literary agen...

"All the writers keep writing what they write Somewhere another pretty vein just dies I've got the scars from tomorrow and I wish you could see That you’re the antidote to everything except for me" The last time I posted a blog it was about literary agents and their lack of diversity when it comes to accepting manuscripts. If you didn't already know, I published my first novel, A Tragic Heart through Amazon's CreateSpace and now I am seeking representation. Well, I've already been rejected over 20 times even though every reader of A Tragic Heart agrees that the novel is more than worthy of the public's attention. My reason for being rejected so many times is solely based on marketing. Marketing. Such an ugly word that every writer must learn or either pull the plug on your career.  I've received so many rejection letters via email because agents believe that books that touches upon self-harm and suicide doesn't really have a market. Th...