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Writing is the Opposite of Lying

Jenna Citrus
3 min readDec 4, 2020

We’ve all done it. Told a lie. Lies range from keeping a present secret for Christmas to turning your phone off for a week in order to hide the fact that you’ve secretly gone to Key West. Unfortunately, I’ve done both of these exact lies one worked out much better needless to say. But after that trip to the Keys and even a few years after I got caught in a lie that I couldn’t lie myself out. I hated the idea of being a liar, it made me feel bad about myself. What happened after that was I quit lying completely. Yes, I can still keep a secret so I won’t ruin your Christmas present. I was having a conversation the other day, accidentally misspoke, then the next words out of my mouth were I apologize, I that was a lie. I called myself out because I didn’t want to stumble down the rabbit hole that is telling one lie on top of the next. I’ve been that truthful now for about 10 years.

I’ll still laugh at the occasional situation comedy where someone gets tangled up in strands of lies but I always love seeing the moral at the end reminding me not to lie and to always stay truthful. Act ethically always, one of my manifestos that I will be writing about soon, came about near my truth deciding to tell the truth days.

When I decided to write a fiction novel I was intimidated. The last pieces of true fiction I’d written are still saved on a distant hard drive from 2006…

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Jenna Citrus
Jenna Citrus

Written by Jenna Citrus

Writer, Artist, Creator, Image & Music Maker, Mediator, jennacitrus.com & beacons.ai/jennacitrus

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