My Life

I feel like I need to work more on writing stories. I think that from now on, I’ll alternate between various perspectives and point of views. Each event will still be true, however, I will write entries from the minds of other people as well as from a 3rd person perspective. I will avoid second person narration because it seems impractical. This way, I can write multiple entries from various characters. I think it’s a neat idea because it’ll promote my creative writing, while at the same time eliminating the repetitiveness of the only character who has been in the blog (me…).I feel as if this will not only inspire new characters for my writings, but it will also help me learn how to develop them and employ different voices effectively. After-all, that is the reason I created this.

I’d like to make a point, however. I recently received an email from a reader who wanted to know if each of my blog posts are the complete truth. My answer was no. Every single event did not happen exactly how I wrote it, some did, but most did not. Some are a combination of a few events that happened at different times, and some unfold exactly as I remember them. I cannot say they are 100% the truth though. I can say that they are all based on true stories, and the majority of it is truth.

So with this in mind, I understand that many of you read the blog for the honesty and real life aspects. I respect that and it will not change. However, the emotions which will be added to another person are purely a guess on my behalf, but they will remain truthful as well.

I’ll still write random things when I feel passionately about them (EG the gay marriage post and the religion post). I’m sure no one cares that much, but I understand that a huge part of my writing is putting the things you all want to read. So if anyone is strongly opposed to this idea let me know… Otherwise, I’m going to start writing blog posts less journal like and more story like…  Most of the time anyways.

Thanks, and let me know if you care either way.

I am me- it’s very nice to meet you.

I’m sitting in my dorm room and it’s 3:44Am. My room-mate went home for the weekend, so with the room to myself, I decided to bring a girl back. We watched Wristcutters: A Love Story after going out to dinner in downtown San Francisco. She left a little earlier than I would have preferred, but I actually enjoyed myself. I came onto my computer half hoping that I’d have a message from her saying she wanted to come back, but instead I found an e-mail telling me that I’m officially a professional blogger.

A couple of my friends told me about this; Albert’s page is over on my links, and the other prefers to stay anonymous for some strange reason. Regardless, here I am.

I’m not entirely sure what all this is going to become yet. I want to have a poetry page which will be updated every once in a while, a prose page the same, a journal which I will try to write in once a day, and probably just random bullshit I think people might be interested in. I’m sure over the course of the next few weeks I’ll kind of figure it out. Right now, I’m a little lost though.

In brief… I’m Travis Johnson and am an 18 year old college student. I’m double majoring in Creative Writing and Psychology and I intend to pursue a career as a novelist. From this sentence on forward, I will do my best to write something worth reading.

Welcome to my blog.