Stranger #10
Cleaning your room
To clean your room you have to be in a good mood. Music helps, preferably The Beatles or Queen. Dance around the room as you clean so it’s not like a job, but fun. Take your time and don’t be rushed, you have all day!
Creating a character in your writing
Avoid cliche personalities, look at your own experiences – base a character on someone you know in life, also focus on the minuscule details of the person (what they carry with them, words they tend to use, their environment). Also, whenever you go out always take a notebook along with you to jot down interesting people and even things you encounter day to day to relate this to a character.
Dealing with the “mean girls”
Don’t deal with their attitude – ignore them as their attitude doesn’t really matter in your life, AT ALL! Don’t let them change you in any way, shape or form. Don’t take anything they say personally as they are immature. Don’t get dragged into any gossip or fights, this will just make matters worse. Treat them equally as they will change in the future.
Would like advice on
Overcoming shyness and over thinking things.
Best advice received
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, and misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself – Edie Sedgwick
Life experience
13 years
Location
Sydney, Australia