I fail

I am a big, fat, lazy failure. I started this project with every good intention of following through, which I clearly did not. I was thinking back on this and how cool it would be to start it up again. I re-read my posts and saw how optimistic and excited they were about the project, and I couldn't help but get pumped up again by my past self. I want to start the project over, from scratch, and hopefully gain a few more followers (and of course, update more than once every eleventy million years). Sooo . . . Mail A Journal Project, Attempt #2, commences . . . now!

Day 4

So my journal got chucked by accident, so I guess I have to start anew. I guess if it had to happen, this early is a good time for it. (By the way, sorry if I'm not coherent or forming any actual sentences, but I haven't slept in over 24 hours). I'm sitting here with FatGirlRulesTheWorld and [IHaveNoUnintended] trying to keep my eyes open. We are currently giggling at the word "mama" and it is quite exciting. So, yes, sorry for this ridiculously weird/late entry, but I'm really out of it at the moment and so I'm going to go conk out now. Keep writing! Every day!

Day 3

Have you all been writing faithfully? Good. Me too. Writing is becoming an amazing cathartic process again, instead of the drudgery and anxiety-filled activity it was just mere months ago. Writing can be such an amazing journey, and I think sharing this journey with other people is super important, so I hope I get more readers/participants. Even if just one person hears what you have to say, your voice is being heard. So to my 3 followers, and anyone else who might be reading, pass the project along to your friends who used to write but don't anymore, or to people who just love to write, or to people who haven't written a single thing outside of the myriad obligatory essays and papers. Pick up your pens and write!

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

Day 2

I've written in my journal once so far, and it feels good to actually write something down for a change. So some wonderful people on a forum I frequent made a few suggestions about the project. The first was to shorten the deadline. I'm thinking maybe 6 months, as a year does seem to be a bit daunting. The other is how often to write. I'd say anywhere between once a day to once a week, but once a week should be the minimum. Alright all of you out there in blog-land, get writing.

Also, I'm going to update the blog every day with my writing endeavors and things like that, but there will occasionally be other things I write about in the blog just to keep the updates coming.

So I had this crazy idea . . .

This morning as I was walking into my bedroom, I spotted an old composition book sitting on my bookcase. I opened it up to see what had been written in it. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's when I got this crazy idea: what if I wrote in it every single day for a year, and then mail the journal off to a random address. Then I got an even CRAZIER idea: what if a BUNCH of people did this? And then what if all of those people mailed their journals to each other to read? And what if it was completely anonymous, so that every little secret, however mundane, could be laid out for another human being to witness? In this age of instantaneous information and communication, I feel that writing-physically writing-is a lost art. Let's bring it back.

Today, January 2nd 2010, at 8:40 in the morning, the Mail a Journal Project . . . BEGINS!