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A blank Word document, and nothing to say
April 9th, 2008 by arielal09
I am struggling to find a topic to talk about. I mean what do I care about? I obviously care about a lot of things; my family, school, my friends… the world? I mentioned in my last two entries that I love art. I do. Then how come I have nothing more to say about it? I mean, to me it is obvious I care enough about that aspect in my life to write more about it, but somehow it just seems irrelevant. How am I going to move people and inspire them while talking about… art? It just seems vague to me. Like not big enough, not important enough, not actual enough… just not enough. I want people to believe in my blogs, I want to believe in my blogs, but it just seems like I cannot make it happen. How am I going to let people know, what I Ariela care about? If all I write about is art it seems like I am stuck in my room all day drawing none stop. Which just in case you do not know, it more like the opposite. How can I inspire people to believe in my drawing when I haven’t gotten a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and just drawn in…almost a month? Maybe I am not such an outcast in the not knowing what to write about department. Maybe I am like most of the teens these days, unconcerned about everything that is going on in the World. More into their ipods, cell phones, computers, and all the other electrical gadgets the modern world provides us with. But I do not want to be like that, I know I am not like that. I mean electrical gadgets are not my thing, and anyone who knows me well enough knows that is true. Then why can’t I sit down and pour my heart out into this blank Word document and say everything I have to say about… everything? I am not sure, and I think I would never be sure why, maybe that is just the way things go. Some days your brain is flying with ideas and other days it seems as blank as this word document was before I opened it. And it is not like I did not have any options to write about. I mean a friend and my mom supplied me with ideas. None of which were bad, but I just cannot seem to inspire myself to write about something I truly care about, believe in. Maybe today was not the day to write my blog. Maybe I should have done the wrong thing and leave it for the last minute. But yet my mind can’t escape the idea that I have nothing to write about. An interesting question could get me going on the topic. Or maybe something that happened to me today, but nothing seems right. I have wonderful topics for long blogs, but none of which I am inspired by. I have been supplied with ideas to write about fun facts about art, teenage usage of alcohol in Costa Rica, road traffic in Costa Rica, and other topics which are not worth mentioning. But when I tried to write about any of those topics my mind seemed to be swiped by a broom and left blank. So for anyone out there reading this blog take on my ideas and get some profit out of them, since I clearly failed miserably to do so.
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on April 10th, 2008 at 5:14 am
[...] arielal09 wrote a fantastic post today on “A blank Word document, and nothing to say”Here’s ONLY a quick extractI have been supplied with ideas to write about fun facts about art, teenage usage of alcohol in Costa Rica, road traffic in Costa Rica, and other topics which are not worth mentioning. But when I tried to write about any of those topics … [...]
on April 11th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hey Ariela, today so was the day to write your blog. My name is Al Upton and I’m a teacher of Year 3 kids (called the miniLegends) in Adelaide, South Australia. Check out our class blog http://alupton.edublogs.org/ … and that’s quite interesting right now!
… sounds like you are looking for authentic communication. Where you share your thoughts (observing safe and savvy internet use) someone reads, listens and responds. Real communication that can be about anything from world changing concepts and philosophy to daily interests – both equally valid and deserving. And this is where Ms Rumford steps in .. she obviously is cool enough to have her finger on the pulse and supply you with the opportunity to have this at school. This is my 5th year of class blogging and it’s not absolute. Lets be honest … you are not going to get comments to every post. You are not going to feel completely satisfied with everything you say. Lot like real life huh? What you will have is … the sharing of your thoughts so others can choose to reflect or respond as they will. You will have provided the opportunity and that is what ‘making a difference’ means.
Here’s another biggy … ‘How can my blogging become more authentic?’ It really is brilliant already .. if you want more .. make it happen. I believe this is something you can do.
You show your readers how into art you are, you let us know how important having something to say is, we are aware that you need to feel some passion (inspired) to get writing … your words are like poetry. They explore and convey your thoughts. You do it beautifully. That leaves the question bit. How about … so what? Does that sound harsh? Not meant to. Does ‘So why?’ sit more comfortably? Sounds to me that you don’t have anything trite like writers block, ‘poor me’ or task avoidance
I hope this (far too long) comment helps. If you had a cluster map you would have a dot from Australia lol – maybe soon. I will send out a request to a lot of teachers to try to get a connection going between our countries. So what can you do? … Now there’s a question
Cheers, Al
on April 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hey Al, it is really exciting to hear from you! Especially since you are at the other side of the world in Australia.
Thank you so much on your comments on my writing! I am so glad you and your students get to enjoy my blog. I never thought by someone outside the community of Mrs.Rumford’s class would read what I wrote in my blog, let alone analyze it. Looking at your response I see your right in believing I do not have something like writers block, I just need a topic in which I can expand on, a word, an idea, a phrase, or anything. If I can expand on that idea or thought while looking for communication it would be wonderful. I want that communication to be on anything that might be considered important, not on countless words that do not have any meaning. I want to ‘make a difference’, whatever that means. Every time I post something I believe I overanalyze it, thinking it is not important or valid enough and that probably nobody would read it. I now can see how wrong I was. I also see that Mrs.Rumford not only wanted us to become better writers by expanding our ideas but also wanted us to reach for communication across the globe. I now see it is not only possible, but happening! It amazing that you believe in what I write, and you are right (again) if I want to make a difference I have to make it happen. As for blogging becoming more authentic I will have to give it a lot of thought. There is so much more to blogging than I thought and there can be even more, that is where authentic comes in. It is really wonderful if you could connect all those teachers between our countries. I now see that may have been Mrs. Rumford’s purpose from the beginning. It is great hearing from and I hope I can hear more! Ariela
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Hello, My name is Rachael.
I am from Australia, i think ur blog is very interesting. I live on a farm down the botttom of Australia in Victoria. I like to draw but im not very good at it. haha…
Anyways.. by.
on April 28th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Ariela! I have no idea how much I enjoyed reading your post. You have just proved to the world that you don’t need a subject to inspire it. Maybe you just need something to grab ahold to. “Dame una palanca y te movere el mundo!” In other words, you can move the world if you find support. This post really got me into thinking about myself. Am I just a teen that only cares about technological gadgets? I do love being on the computer, and my cell phone… Okay fine, and my Ipod. But that is not what I am all about. I enjoy many things that aren’t as shallow. Things that are deep. I love thinking. If it were a passion, that would be mine. I love just sitting down and thinking about things until everything is clear. And if they already are, I just like to replay them in my head. Am I still just a teen? If you visit my blog at:
http://nathauribe.edublogs.org
you will see that something else that inspires me is peace. IS that a passion? Check it out and tell me if you think so. VERY nice job on the entry. Event though I really liked it, I, personally, know it is not easy to fill a post when you have nothing to write about. I hope you find something that truly inspires you so that with it you can move the world!!