Wednesday, December 11, 2013
To whom it may concern
For anybody who cares or still has the decency to not bash our teacher, thus ends an age and the future of a good man. Presuming the rumors are true, we will never see him in our educational future. It's sad to think about. With this situation, I doubt we are ever going to return to our blogs. So here I am signing off...
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Ben, these blogs are yours. Please don't forget that. You may have made them because your teacher assigned you to, but you created them because you want to be part of the larger conversation. It is one venue for your voice.
ReplyDeleteMy issue is that my voice has grown weary. I haven't been able to muster up the creativity that I used to for a while now. I can sit and think about something to write for hours and yet I get nothing every time.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget your lessons. The goal is to conquer the blank page by just writing. Ideas and thoughts will come during the act of writing, not always before. Your writing does not always need to make sense or be "good," it just has to be begun for when it you begin writing, you will write yourself into something that captures your interest. It may take pages and pages and hours and hours, but that time spent putting words to the page (or screen) are better spent then lamenting your lack of words. Creativity comes in spurts. Writing is like surfing in a sense. Any art form is, really. The big wave that gives you the rush and carries you to shore does not come as often as you like. But you keep paddling out and catching smaller waves, you keep showing up every morning to check on the surf, you putting that wet suit on because to not do so would be to live less of your life. Writing is the same. You don't judge all your writing by the one big wave you took last week. You judge it on your willingness to look for the next big wave on the horizon. Just write. Just write.
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