Hello World! Welcome to the Starring You Project. My name is Starla Mooney. I created this website to share the art I have long hidden that was never meant to be available to the public. Me truly believing that led to me being brutally honest in my works, sometimes overly so. Honesty is easiest for me when there is no pressure. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to write. In the past, I had been gifted countless journals for my writing but ended up misplacing each one. I have lost poems and songs due to my carelessness. I wish I had access to what I wrote in the five years before I started really keeping track of my art but I do not.
It was doing me no good to continue like that. I collected all my poems in my scattered journals and put them together in one binder. I was hoping it would be harder to lose, and I was right. As for my songs, it became easier in my freshman year of high school, where I got my own cell phone to keep all my writing in. Surely I wouldn't lose that, right? Well, my phone stopped working randomly around the end of the first semester. Once I got my new one, I did fairly well. I also created a binder for my songs. I printed out each one and wrote how to play them and on the back I wrote the meaning of the song in detail. These binders became my most prized possessions. For the longest time it did not cross my mind that I could lose these in a catastrophe out of my control. This website is a way to ensure I never lose my art, which has been the only constant in my life. If I ever lose it, what else will I do?
I do not know how to code, and I'm learning as I go. Hopefully this website's look will improve, but even if it doesn't, it's okay. That is not what I exist for.
Starring You is my personal life project to share every song and poem I've ever written since I was 14. Even the ones I hate and wish didn't exist. For some frustrating reason, my amygdala won't let me try to rid them from my memory. I will have all my music, poetry, and short stories here eventually. And with that, I introduce the STARRING YOU PROJECT!