Ooh, cool! And great idea!

@Kitten, thank you! Here's one I just finished:

Something strange about me is that my mind is a major multi-tasker- it toys around with its newest fictional world and the half-formed, nameless OCs that came along with it, repeats a quote from the internet to itself, hums two lines from a song in Hamilton, and pays attention to what it’s making my pen do all at the same time.

I think my own brain is semi-insane, to be honest. Don’t take this the wrong way, though- I love my mind. It automatically changes random thoughts, conversations, pictures, and other miscellaneous things into a new world, new character, new story that I keep stored away, waiting until I gather enough information about it to write it down. Sometimes I’m shocked when I remember that most people don’t do that.

I also get this perfect movie in front of me whenever I read a book. And some features I can’t change even if I realize I’m imagining them wrong. I was pretty sure everybody did this… so it was pretty shocking when I asked my sister what the places and characters looked like to her in a book we had both read, and she said that they weren’t completely clear.

My brain is wonderful and quirky. And I wouldn’t change a thing about it. 

This is a really cool idea! I really like your writing style and your descriptions. Definitely keep us all updated on this project!

I really love this idea. It reminds me of journaling, a bit, but different. I’ve actually done similar things like this, just writing down memories and feelings and little moments that might otherwise get missed but that actually mean a great deal. Sometimes I’ve done it in the form of poetry, or a list. I’ve thought about/wanted to start doing it more, and I probably will if I have time. Anyway, really cool idea. 

Thanks, eveyone! Here's another one:

I’ve always savored food- saving my favorite part of my meal for last, chewing slowly to feel all of the flavors dripping across my taste buds. Thus, whenever I get candy, I stash it away to have later. Then whenever I have a bad day, I just crawl over to my stash and shove some chocolate in my mouth. Every bad day is better with chocolate.

On a related subject, I really love gum. Mostly bubblegum, watermelon, and strawberry if I can get my little hands on it. And whenever I get gum, it goes right with my candy in its spot behind my bedside table. Unfortunately, people forget my gum flavor preferences and get me mint instead. Sure, I’ll chew it, it’s gum, but it just takes me a while to get through it. Hence, there always seems to be a random stash of mint gum laying about, only half-hidden behind my bed. And it just sits there, waiting for me.

You know what? Imma chew on some right now.  

Eh, I don't like this one as much... 

I like the one about your brain. :) I often wonder how much other people think about... their thoughts, I guess. It's interesting to learn you think about your thoughts/brain too!

YOU LIVE IN ILLINOIS SO DO I

@Ella, you live in Illinois? Sweeet! *high-fives*

This one was semi-random, but I guess that's the whole point of this project.

Clouds. Clouds, clouds knitted thick in a blanket over the atmosphere. Clouds, thin and moving lazily like floating pieces of pulled-apart cotton candy. Clouds, bunched together in big bunchy misshapen spheres against the blue sky. Clouds, think and half grey in strange layers overlapping each other. Clouds, scattered across the horizon with no place to go. Clouds.

I, like many others, wish I could walk on clouds, or heck, just touching one would satisfy me. Clouds just seem serene and slightly poetic to me, like they just have this aura of pleasantness. On many occasions, during car rides, Mom will blurt out, “Look at the clouds!” or something similar to signal us to find shapes in them. Mermaids, dinosaurs, elephants, tornadoes, we’ve seen them all. Shape finding in the clouds is a common road trip diversion for me and my family.

Today, the clouds hangs in small spheres, all in rows stretching across the horizon. They look like they’re just waiting for an angel to descend upon them and slowly walk on top of them, like a dramatic movie scene. Clouds.  

This is really cool, Soren! I really like your writing style and enjoy reading these. 

Ah, page 2! TOP!

Hamilton.

Ah, Hamilton. Before I saw it, I listened to Indie and Alt. rock. Now I listen to the soundtrack on repeat. Before I saw it, I didn’t usually have random song lyrics stuck in my head, looping around and nestling themselves into my consciousness. Before I saw it, the only musicals I had seen where some put on by people younger than 20. Before I saw it, I wasn’t desperate to finally bring my working pair of earbuds from school. Before I saw it, I  didn’t really see the need to get an And Peggy! shirt.  Before I saw it, I couldn’t rise up or raise a glass to freedom or let it be enough or meet him inside or get Washington on my side (maybe because he’s dead) or blow you all away or write like I was running out of time. More likely, I just couldn’t make all of those references.

I will never know who tells my story. But when they do, they better include this.  That would be enough for me.

Sorry for the reference dump. 

OH MY GOSH BOO ALMOST CUSSED FOR THE SECOND TIME- does anyone have some soap I can borrow?