Hey guys!
I just wanted to let you know that I've just launched my new blog today... It's called Leaving New York City and it pretty much contains my life since June last year. It's very personal stuff and it's very dear to me so I'd be very very very happy if you checked it out! You can find it on:
http://leavingnewyorkcity.blog.co.uk
and here's a little preview and introduction to it all:
Leaving New York City
Welcome. To my deepest secrets, feelings, happenings, lovers, haters and generally everything I went through in the past year. A year ago in June, I started writing things down. No dark random entries in my little black book, no short stories that I keep to myself, no articles about my views on society, no, it wasn’t like anything I’ve written before.
I can’t precisely remember why I started to write. But I remember making a drink at the coffee shop and suddenly having this idea, this title. „Leaving New York City“.
I have various theories why I chose this title for my collection of texts but they all came after I chose it. You could say that this title doesn’t have any meaning or sense at all, and you might be right. But to me, it just sounded right.
A couple of months ago I spilled water over my laptop and I was facing the possibility of losing everything I had on my MacBook. Everything, including this. I couldn’t bear the idea of having lost almost a year’s writing and that’s what made me realise that I have to put this out there somehow. Not just because it’s safer out there than in here, but I feel that as an aspiring writer I have to get used to the idea of people reading what I put on paper or screen. And I have to be comfortable with it.
This „book“ contains so much. But most of all, it contains nothing but the truth. I can guarantee you right here and right now that there is not even one single lie in here. But I came to the decision that I can not be responsible for putting other people’s truths out there as well and I don’t want to get anyone involved in some kind of trouble or embarassement. So I have decided to change all the names. However, I’m sure you’ll know when I meant you.
And one last thing... please don’t get angry at me for what I wrote. I have thought well about anything I put online and LNYC started a year ago so you know that my views and behaviours might have changed. Believe me, it’s hard enough to cut my mind and soul in little pieces and present them all on one huge platter.
I hope you will appreciate my honesty, be entertained or moved or motivated to think about certain matters and maybe even start putting your own personal truths out there.
Long live the freedom of speech.
Yours truly,
Antonia Landi
