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I've been working on Assignment 1 for the better part of the week, and I still haven't managed to even nearly follow the instructions. I've finally come to the conclusion that my abnormal brain and I just can't do it. Since this is an Adventure and not school, I don't have to force myself to. I know from experience that forcing my mind to work in a way that it can't work can only damage me. I don't know if I'll be able to do reviews either. Comments, yes; reviews, no.

I hope you all realize the trust I have to have to be able to tell you all this, and to say these things without fear. I'd like to talk about it all a little bit, because it is such a burden to have to hide my struggles. Having traveled with you all for the past couple weeks, though, I've come to the point where I'm able to (and want to!) open up and let you see the things I can't do. The things I can't do happen to include most formal methods of character development; doing a brain dump of everything I know about my character and his surroundings (I know him very well… it just would take hours and hours and hours to try to do any more than I've managed on the first section--so it's kinda short. I am not able to push myself like that right now, nor do I feel like any of you would want me to); and answering "what have you learned?" sorts of questions. My mind just isn't organized like that, just doesn't work like that.

I've decided to set aside the "letter" of the assignment and do what I can with the "spirit" of the assignment, because that's the only way I can do it. My assignment is here: "Invalid Entry" . It is an entry in my secondary WDC blog. The item is not set to allow reviews. If you would like to leave comments (please do!), it allows blog-type comments. I would prefer that you use the "Leave a comment" link rather than the "email comments" option, so that everyone can see what you've written.

Thanks for letting me trust you. I don't open up to people easily because I've been hurt and mistreated and misjudged so many times. I feel like I know you all, and I don't feel judged when I'm on the Adventure with you.

Love,

-Mariah :)