Goodbye, Cruel Blog

 

“Mike, you’re finally done blogging.”

“Well, I have this last one to do.”

“Oh really? How goes it?”

“OK I guess. Honestly I’m sick and tired of the whole ordeal.”

“Why? I thought you liked writing.”

“I do, I do. It’s just that writing about writing…eh. Not my style”

“What is ‘your style’?”

“I don’t know, something a little more creative, maybe a little more abstract.”

“Explain.”

“Well, that teacher who came into class the other day, what she was saying made a lot of sense to me. She was a grade school writing teacher and to get her kids to write she simply had them write about what interested them, or what they knew about.”

“But you know a thing or two about writing, don’t you?”

“Sometimes I think so, but that’s not the point. The point is I a not passionate about writing about writing. I think the Teacher’s point she was trying to make was that students will write better when they have a certain passion for what they are writing about.”

“I see…”

“Yeah, I mean this exercise does better help me understand blogs I guess, but It would have been far more rewarding, and probably better written, if I could have chosen my own blog or something.”
“Can’t always get what you want.”

“Oh I know, I’m not complaining, just babbling really.”