Vivian De Winter


No One Else Can Ever Know

No one else can ever know...

Inspired by writer Austin Kleon, and his blackout newspaper process, I wanted to give the exercise a go myself. Unfortunately, I usually have printed flyers on hand, not newspapers. So, I went scrounging around in my "writing" folder on my computer for some raw material.


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I found a file called My Little Darlings. No, it's not a story. It's a page and a half of text which I had cut from a novel I had begun writing many years ago. It didn't fit that particular storyline at the time, but I could't bring myself to trash it permanently.

Anyway, I thought why not try out this process and see what I end up with?

Instead of printing it off and using a black marker, I played around with the blackout process using rectangle shapes. Once I was satisfied, I took a screenshot of the results.

No one else can ever know about the expensive smelling man who wore trashy earrings that sparkled like real diamonds.

That is NOT something I would have written otherwise.