Since my last entry in the Ethnography Notes, I have jotted down a few more notes in my log; I’ve started to make it a daily process. The notes I have now are far different from the ones I had previously in that, instead of just writing down the things I did on any given day and events in the wider world, I have also begun creating prompts for creative writing in them. Surprisingly, I have not had any new essays in the time since the last entry; those assignments have been replaced with shorter paragraph-writing work and the like. This means that, proportionally speaking, I have been doing more creative writing than writing for academic purposes. As I mentioned before, I tend to write very early in the morning, around 1 or 2AM, since at that point I am too tired to self-censor my ideas. I worry quite a bit about self-censorship, not just for myself but for others, too. The nature of writing for a class means that there are automatically some themes I cannot write about, whether due to being socially taboo or due to a lack of knowledge on my part to put anything new and interesting out there. Of course, there are also time constraints which put pressure on all the writing I do, regardless of context. Generally speaking, there’s only a limited amount of time on any day in which I feel comfortable doing work, so I have to maintain a steady balance or reap the consequences.
