Category: General Musings

• Anxiety Manifest

  HOW WILL MY ANXIETY MANIFEST TODAY? Anxiety is a strange monster. It doesn’t always weigh logic or statistics. In fact, it rarely references the sciences at all. Sometimes it creeps in; sometimes it attacks like a hippopotamus on the good drugs. It’s rarely predictable and even less common for anxiety to be helpful. The person…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 29, 2023

  General Musings

  anxiety, emotions, fears, health, mental health, mental illness, surgery, unexpected anxiety

• How To Make Someone’s Day

  GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY “Go ahead, make my day.” It’s such a good line, isn’t it? I’ve never even seen Sudden Impact but I know Clint Eastwood says it. And although I have no context for the scene it comes from, I know his character is egging another character on, like, “Oh, yes, please…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 22, 2023

  General Musings

  community, culture, emotions, houseplants, plants, shopping, social anxiety, social interaction, strangers

• The Morning Routine

  MY MORNING ROUTINE PROBLEM I’ve been really struggling to get out of bed lately. If you know me well, you know that I typically struggle to get out of bed, so this isn’t headline-worthy news. Except that, and I really mean this, it’s been even worse than usual lately. And it didn’t have much farther…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 15, 2023

  General Musings

  coffee, depression, difficulties, habits, health, mental health, MORNINGS, personal growth, routines, struggles

• And Now I’m On YouTube

  Hello, friends! As you may have noticed, I’m working on growing my writing career. (If this shocks you, you’re new around here, so I’d highly suggest starting with a different post. Maybe start with this one about how strange it is to write fiction?) Because I didn’t have the slightest idea how to grow my…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 12, 2023

  General Musings

  authortube, content creation, emotions, growth, new challenges, writing, youtube

• Scarcity Mentality

  What’s scarcity mentality? Do you ever find yourself scrambling to protect what you have, in case there isn’t more available later? I know that’s an incredibly general question, and probably difficult to answer. But lately, I’ve found myself face-to-face with my scarcity mentality from a creative standpoint, and I’m beginning to realize that it actually…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 8, 2023

  General Musings

  anxiety, creativity, growth, mental health, mindset, resources, writers, writing

• Writing Fiction is Incredibly Weird

  I’m working on finishing my first novel (check out draft one of chapter one here) and I’m remembering that writing fiction is incredibly weird. I say “remembering” for two reasons: 1) because I wrote quite a bit of fiction in high school and college (though I never finished a book-sized project) and 2) I’ve read…

  ashleyne seitz

  September 1, 2023

  General Musings

  authors, books, character development, fiction, reading, writers, writers block, writing