Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

I was addicted to sadness It was my favorite mistake I embraced my inner madness And it opened the gates Locking myself alone Was my favorite childhood pastime Practicing a bitter tone Developing anger I could call mine And I may have been 5 years old But I knew what I was doing Sadness was the only thing I could hold Something new inside was brewing But it made me who I am So, what are you going to do? It opened up a flooded dam My favorite mistake was missing you  

"I kissed him intensely and at the moment I didn’t care if I was making a mistake."-Peyton Hayley Giordano ( RED ) Starting today, I'm going to write blog posts based on the many themes of my upcoming novel, RED . I think sometimes people get so caught up in a story that they forget to take lessons out of them. I'm going to make it easier for you all to pick out the lessons and themes from the book. You'll understand more once you read it.    As most of you all know (hopefully all of you), no one is perfect...not one of us. Therefore, it only makes sense for characters in books to not be perfect. They need flaws like everyone else. RED is full of characters with flaws (some major, some minor). The topic of today's post is mistakes. We all make them and we're all guilty of them.    The problem with mistakes is that we usually know beforehand when we're making one. In fact, a lot of mistakes are premeditated but something inside of us p...