I'm not excruciatingly honest because I want attention. I'm not honest because I want to hurt anyone. I'm honest because this is my life. This is what happened and even though it's extremely personal, it happened. I'm not just being honest with everyone around me, but I'm being honest with myself too. With everything that has happened, I don't want to keep it in and manipulate the stories and events to make myself feel better. In my writing process I keep in mind the reality of things, so even though my stories are extremely personal or made up, they're real life. They bring me back to reality, and they show everyone else reality. My stories may not be true sometimes. My stories may be painful to write, and I have shed a couple tears writing them, but I want to remind myself that I can't live in my mind and have happy endings and a fairy tale life. The stories I write all have hardships in them, real hardships that everyone might or will go through. There's no point in sugarcoating anything. This is life, and this is how it is going to be.