We often keep secrets because we’re not only embarrassed to be who we are in front of other people, but also because we feel genuinely embarrassed by who we are (PoemCrazy). I’m not sure this is true for everyone—I enjoy being me when I just let myself go and actually be who God made me. This is true in writing as well.
What’s wonderful about writing just for the sake of writing is that it allows one to get better acquainted with oneself—her voice in writing—without trying to be professional, or write that A paper or short story that rivals that of Voltaire and Hawthorne. Once that voice is discovered, it can easily be transferred to that A paper or creative story, not as a miserable attempt to emulate the voice of legends, but simply as oneself, which is the best and truest (and only) self I know. That’s how I think one writes the greatest, genuine, and raw works—from one’s own unique voice. One can just enjoy being oneself and spilling out those secrets through writing. That’s what my computer folder called “-----'s Random Writing” is for. The weirdest part for me is going back to those old “secrets” and thoughts I’ve have written and see how my “voice” and views have developed or changed—and I get kind of tickled.
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