ENGL 4800 Final

I'm doing my final project for my ENGL 480 Teaching Literature In Secondary Schools. It will be a multi-genre project including blogs, creative writing, and art. The project will be using PostSecret. What I need from you are secrets. If any of you are interested in helping me I need you to either send your secrets to me or if you see me in class casually drop your secret into my backpack. All secrets will be posted on a blog. I'll post the link when I am finished.

Guidelines (the same Frank Warren uses for the PostSecret Blog.)
You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before."

"Create your own 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. But please only put one secret on a card. If you want to share two or more secrets, use multiple postcards. (Please do not e-mail your secret.)"

"Please put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard."

"Tips:
* Be brief - the fewer words used the better.
* Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.
* Be creative - let the postcard be your canvas."

You can mail it to me at

Rachel Trembley
2017 Elkerton Ave
Apt. 308
Kalamazoo MI, 49048

For those of you who don't know what PostSecret is... http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

"PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard."

"Since Frank Warren created the site on January 1, 2005, PostSecret has collected and displayed upwards of 75,000 original pieces of art from people across the United States and some parts of the world (international readers have also been known to send in postcards). The idea of the project is simple: completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they have never before revealed. There is no restriction on what the content of the secret must be, only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, and hopes and dreams."

There are now four books filled with postcards from the site. They are:

PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
MySecret: A PostSecret Book
The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book