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In addition to telling you about the project, this site also functions as my authorship site. I want there to be full transparency between me and my readers because this also shows my growth not only as a writer, but also as a human being.
I'm not without fault. I'm sure there are things that I write about that are both problematic or maybe even downright unacceptable. In a few years, the work that I do might also become dated, if not entirely obsolete. I am not an exception to age or progression and I think it's worth noting that.
The good news is that I'm not incapable of change. I can also grow with the times and hold myself accountable for the things that I do and write. The journalist in me knows that there's a lot of privilege in being a writer; people read what we say and some can take that to heart. It's important to entertain the idea that your writing may just be that important to someone else. While this can be flattering, it can also be very crucial to a person's frame of mind.
I've always wanted to be a fictional writer since I was a little kid. Books and stories helped shape how I interacted with the real world and how I thought of myself. Some of them even lead to self discovery; like understanding my sexuality or reconciling with the fact that I had chronic anxiety growing up. It was a type of education.
The older I got, the more the world I saw in my head became a clearer picture. The stories I'd been thinking of all my young adult life started to connect, and I realized that they were all taking place in the same world. Even if some of these tales had nothing to do with one another, they had something to do with an overall world; an experience of just existing.
Origin has been a passion project and also what I will always consider the very start of my life's work. I don't think I'll ever feel satisfied until I've documented every part of this world that I've seen. To me, it's not about the money, because I sure as hell am not making any. It's about the world itself and the healing it has done for me.
Origin is not perfect. It's full of imperfect, problematic people that live messy lives with troubling experiences. And that, to me, is the most important part about it. I can't write perfect work because I'm not a perfect person. I also can't speak for everyone because, clearly, I'm not everyone. I can only write about the stories that live inside me and they might not always be right, just like they might not always be wrong.
I'm writing about this as a positionality piece, more or less. Like I said in the beginning, transparency is important to me. I want you to know who I am and why I do what I do. Initially, this was for healing. And it still is, but I had to recognize that by me putting my writing out there to the world, I was also encouraging people to read, listen or watch my work as well. If at any point it impacts someone, that is my responsibility. I recognize that.
This is my writing and these are my words.