Chemnotcharacter Stories

"Life, Luke had decided, was colourless."

User-submitted stories about their own mental illnesses, their struggles with themselves and finding the strength to face it every day.

Paper is fragile, but if you fold it the right way, you can make it into something beautiful. #freementalillness #nomorescars #chemnotchracter

At #chemnotcharacter, we encourage writers to explore characters suffering from a variety of mental illnesses. To promote this, we will be hosting a number of contests a...

© Kristen___ 2015 "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -Winston Churchill Danika lived...

WINNER 2015 Wattys #JustWriteIt challenge. Oh my. What large teeth you have? "As you're pretty so be wise, wolves may lurk in every guise." Phobias; we all ha...

An agglomeration of essays centralizing on humanism, the macrocosm, my prosaic adversity, and what it means to be alive. copyright © 2016

"I don't care if I live or die. I just wish something would make the choice for me." "Well why not do exactly that? You and me, around the world. We do e...

"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that st...

some use poetry as a means of expression, others to create art, and still others as a form of relief. yet, the purest intention behind a poem is none other than writing...

Nobody cares if you're hanging by a thread or trudging through life completely bruised and swollen. Nobody is going to stand by your side when the first devastating wave...

"She was like an open book written in a different language."

iBooks: https://itun.es/us/bgmNab Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/614633 [Published Under the Title 'Emily Was'] ~*~ a daughter who dived off a buildin...

Mental illness: a popular topic in fiction, an unpopular reality. Tips and guidelines for writing realistic characters suffering from MIs, written for and by Wattpad aut...

They said it was because of a lack of serotonin. (lower-case intentional)

Recuperare. Graphic by @justlyd

They are a new breed rising with flames flickering in their eyes. They don't fear anything because they've already been torn apart and undone. They are ruled by pure imp...