It’s hard to write honest.
Sometimes the “truest sentence you know”, as Hemingway advised to write, is something you don’t want to say. Or something you don’t even want to know.
Honest doesn’t have to mean some kind of deep pouring out of feelings. It doesn’t mean sharing personal information. It doesn’t mean poignant or moving or cutting. It just means true. True to what you know.
Sometimes honest writing is funny, sometimes sober. Sometimes expository, sometimes narrative. The difficulty is, you don’t know what honest writing for each session will look like until you start. At least I don’t.
The truest sentence I know today is that I’m having a hard time formulating what I know and feel in my gut into any kind of words. And I’m pretty sure I don’t want to anyway. So I’m honestly writing about the difficulty of honest writing.