I decided to try a new writing project, inspired by David Sedaris.
I actually wanted to do this since I first read that he did this about a year ago, but I couldn't bring myself to write about the "right" things. The project is simple: write daily (like, pen and paper)-- one sentence, five pages, doesn't matter. It could be about anything, in any style. The only catch (that I've created for myself) is that I must feel okay about it being read by others. I'll still mention names, and it's not necessarily that they can only be happy, superficial, positive things, it's that I just have to feel comfortable knowing that the person I'm writing about may read it one day. Hypothetically. I told Cliff he could read it if it's lying around somewhere in our apartment (something makes me feel like he won't because I make my notebooks seem mystic. Like...even to myself). But the purpose is to help me feel comfortable having my writing be read, since I'm so afraid of that. It's not a lack of confidence, it's simply that I feel like a lot of me is exposed through my writing, and then I become very transparent even to people I hardly know.
It won't be about my day. It'll be random thoughts and questions I have, and how I come to conclusions, if at all.
I still have a diary-diary. The kind that holds all my honest, personal junk, that I might be afraid people will come across.
But, as the great David Sedaris once said, “If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”
