The Willie Diaries began in sixth grade as an ambitious attempt to give my thoughts for an English project.

In eighth grade, I write and sold copies of The Daniel Diaries, a thinly-veiled rehash of the original Willie Diaries, for a school product fair.

Compared to the hundreds of entries and hundreds of thousands of words of the junior year edition, the original Willie Diaries was incredibly simplistic. With the headings, the piece was only 2,561 words long and not worth being read more than once. Luckily, that was all that was needed for my English teacher then to grade it.

With this new Willie Diaries, I aimed to write something with redeeming value; something that would remember arguably the best year of my high school career: junior year. I developed some relationships I never wish to forget, so I wanted to preserve it in the one medium I know won't disappear soon: the humble book.