I love to write. I think writing allows people to express how they really feel because it can be hard to say some things out loud.The issue I have with writing about certain topics is that sometimes they are too personal. It's not that I don't want to write about them, it's just that I don't want to put all of my life out there. Plus, a lot of it would involve people that I meet or know and I would never want to put someone's life on blast for everyone to read. Even if I did not use actual names, others who are close to the subject would know who or what I was referring to.
I think it would be totally awesome if the Odyssey offered an anonymous option for writing. I understand the reasons why allowing people to write anonymously could be dangerous, but people in the writing world do it every day. I think that if I could write without people knowing it was me, I would write about things that really matter to me. I still would not write about specific people or anything, but I would write more content based on my life. It's not that I am ashamed of what I would write if I did it under my name, but that I would feel like what I was writing about was too personal.
The problem with allowing me to write anonymously is that I would most likely treat these articles more like journal entries. That being said, yes, I do have a journal, or diary if prefer calling it that. It is not that I want people to know every little detail about what I'm thinking or what is happening in my life, it's just that I think if I could say things I really wanted to say, that I would feel like more of my content was about something important to me. I'm not saying that what I have been writing about the past 8-9 months isn't important, I just think that I have other ideas that are based on my life that I think I need to write about.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, I don't believe this is an option. So, until then, I'll try to write more personal pieces, but I can't promise they'll be super personal. I want to write better content, but I guess we'll see.
