I am writing in my new writing program pages on my iPad. I like it, with my small added on Targus keyboard.
Even a blank page has something, even if one can't relate! There is still something and as humans we must search and find that something in the perceived nothingness. If there is nothing and we don't find it, what does that say about ourselves.
A writing class I took a long time ago, the instructor told everybody to come into class everyday and after sitting down at their desk , they were to take out pen and paper and just start writing. I understood and just wrote, because that is what I have been doing for 50 years. I have had a lot of practice writing something, putting anything on blank paper, figuring out the theme or the topic.
A young student, younger than I since I was about 40 at the time and much older than my class mates, said, "I don't have anything to write." The instructor said "sure you do." The student said, "I can't think of anything." And the instructor said, "that is something, write it." The students says, "what is something?" The instructor says again, "that is something, write it." Finally, the instructor says to this student, "write over and over I can't think of anything to say and eventually your mind may find something else to say."
I think the student thought this was silly as younger persons often do when we receive instructions that make little sense to us at in that moment.
Another writing class I had that same school year, the instructor was wholly different, had us reading and writing in styles that were in someone else's voice. It was just another exercise to learn to free up our minds and get us used to writing something. This instructor was more traditional, the other was more free spirit. I can't say who was best. I think the students in the more traditional class were of a group who were already prepared for the traditional type instruction such as they had received in high school and it was a natural transition to college to write in a prescribed and generally accepted style. I was more open to non traditional writing, perhaps I was more remedial or more advanced. It is hard to say. Perhaps some of those students went onto higher learning establishments and became writers for Fox News or The Wall Street Journal or some other reporting agency where they could bang out news and opinions geared to the mainstream population for assimilation.
