Sensation or Fail?

This is the book I stayed up for hours last night reading. What Lesley did was take a bunch of diary entries from ages 11 through 25 and updated them. She goes through all these crazy phases and gets on all these drugs, and it ends after she goes to rehab and stays off heroin forever. Maybe my life isn't as dramatic as hers was...but then again, my life has been pretty chaotic. And what do you expect, I'm a teenager! So this morning, I pulled out all my journals and started reading and tabbing entries I though I could possibly one day comment upon and then publish.

But then I had a better idea: instead of making it a book, I can create a blog for it! Every day, I will take a journal entry, write my own "update" (in chronological order of course) and post it. I realise how risky it is and people might get offended if they see their names there. If the person isn't directly relevant but I still bash them, I'll probably change their name. It will also be extremely embarrassing, but I know how to laugh at myself. Well sometimes. But this would be a true test to see how much I don't care what people think. =D

Also, it could help its readers. Maybe a girl will be skimming along, and then thinks, "OMG I'm facing this same problem right now!" And then she'll see how terribly I handled the situation and it'll be a learning experience for her without having to mess up her life. The demographic I'd be aiming for are, of course, the kids of my own age group, or maybe people who just love making fun of other people.

Maybe it's a terrible idea, but I will try it anyway and ask my friends what they think about it, whether or not they would follow it, etc. I mean, even when I just started writing in journals, I fantasised about one day publishing them and people reading them and learning from them and laughing at them and bonding with me despite having never met me. I wanted everything to be in the open one day, like Mia's diary in "Princess Diaries". But see, thing is, she's fictional. I was edgy because I'm not fictional (I don't think) and hadn't really read non-fictional journals, except maybe The Diary of Anne Frank, and more recently, Go Ask Alice (like, it's an old book, but I just read it), except that one is anonymous, and BOTH she and Anne Frank ended up dead and their journals were published by other people. But then I read "Dear Diary", and Lesley Arfin did exactly what I wanted to do. I'm going to do it!

I'm really excited about this, but I'm also pretty scared. Heh. What if I get shot? Oh boy. Whatever though. Life is about taking risks and this is one that I totally just have to take.