8 Relaxing Date Ideas For Introvert Couples

8 Relaxing Date Ideas For Introvert Couples

It’s important to spend time with your special someone, but it’s understandable if you’re not always up for dealing with the stress of crowds and extra social interaction. Everyone needs to spend some time away from others, but this is extra important for introverts who reenergize in the time they spend alone. 

1. Build A Blanket Fort

When you give in to your inner kid, you’re sure to have some good memories and even greater laughs. All you really need to….

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8 Ways to Beat Insomnia’s Butt

It goes like this. You go to bed at 10:30 pm. You lay there content for awhile thinking about the funny thing a friend said or the new trick the dog learned. Maybe you turn over on to your side or your stomach and tuck yourself into the sheets fully intending to have a good night sleep.

Then you remember you forgot to put the clothes in the dryer and you need them for the morning. Well, maybe not. Maybe you can find something in your closet if you dig deep enough. You close your eyes again and think about the fight you had with your mom or your significant other. You think about the homework you didn’t do for the class you hate. You look at the clock, and its midnight, and you suddenly remember you have to get up early tomorrow because it’s your turn to bring the coffee. Now you are worried about being tired tomorrow because you aren’t going to get a good night’s sleep.

Alright, maybe if you go to sleep right this minute you can still get a good 6 hours before the alarm goes off.  The second you close your eyes, your mind takes off on another tangent. You look at the clock again, and now it is 2:30 am.  Perfect. Now you are looking at 3 hours of sleep if you go to sleep right now.

Finally, you drift off to sleep only to be startled by the sound of the alarm telling you it’s time to get up. You feel like you just went to sleep. You feel like you might cry.

Welcome to an insomniac’s nightmare.

The Insanity of Insomnia

Insomnia is a common condition. It is estimated that roughly 1/3 of the adult population suffers from chronic insomnia which results in a reduced quality of life. Insomnia is different then a few sleepless nights. It must be persistent and last from 1 to 6 months. It is chronic if it lasts more than six months.Impaired daytime functioning, higher health costs and increased loss of time for work are just a few of the problems sufferers face. Over time, insomnia leads to depression, anxiety, and increased use of hypnotic medication.

Sleep is vital to our health and wellness. Lack of sleep increases the time it takes to recover from illness and impedes our ability to concentrate.In short, lack of sleep can make you feel like you are going insane.

Insomnia can occur for a number of reasons. Things like a noisy environment, shift work, substance abuse, illness, and age are all reasons for not getting a good night sleep.There are some successful recommendations to help bring on those sweet dreams once again.

A group of researchers from the American Academy of Sleep reviewed scientific literature dating back to 1999 from the Sleep Academy. Their goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of non-pharmacological treatments of insomnia. They published their findings in Practice Parameters for the Psychological and Behavioral Treatment of insomnia: An Update. Their recommendations were developed based on the review using evidence-based methods.  They determined that the behavioral interventions discussed below effectively treat insomnia.

What to Do

We live active lives and sometimes it is difficult to turn off the brain once you settle in for the night. These recommendations work but only if you practice them on a consistent basis. It often takes a few weeks practicing a new routine before it becomes effective.If you have difficulty sleeping try these recommendations:

Stimulus Control Therapy – This objective of this therapy is to train yourself to re-associate the bed and the bedroom with sleep and to re-establish a consistent sleep-wake schedule…

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Things you should know about each of your characters

These are what I would consider to be the most basic, bare-bones questions of character creation.

What would completely break your character?

What was the best thing in your character’s life?

What was the worst thing in your character’s life?

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?

Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?

What is your character reluctant to tell people?

How does your character feel about sex?

How many friends does your character have?

How many friends does your character want?

What would your character make a scene in public about?

What would your character give their life for?

What are your character’s major flaws?

What does your character pretend or try to care about?

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

What is your character afraid of?

What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?

Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale?

Well, looks like I’ll have to drink all my problems away…

Will, while drinking a capri sun

5 of the Worst Writing Advices

by Visionofwriters

The following article was graciously submitted by one of our followers when we called for it. If you would like to submit an article, please check out this post.

On Tumblr, it is very easy to find posts called “Writing Tips” or “Writing Advice”. While most of these posts are trying to help you, some of the advice can be badly researched and will end up damaging your writing. Therefore, I’ve composed a list of 5 of the most popular (and worst) writing advice, to help you clear out some misinformation. Enjoy!

1. If it’s not relevant, cut it.

If you look closely into this one, it might actually be good advice. But most new writers take this as a sign to cut every single scene where their characters are talking/not talking about the plot.

Now imagine if J.K. Rowling had done that. The seven books would be short, and they would just contain Harry worrying about Voldemort. We would’ve never known Ron and Hermione tend to argue, or that Harry liked Cho. When you cut “irrelevant” scenes, you cut subplots and character development.

If you really feel like a scene doesn’t have a point, ask yourself: Why did I write this scene? Why did I feel that it contributes to the plot?

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