The Right Writing
December 11, 2006
All you ever had were a sheet of “fool’s cap” paper, a yellow school board wooden pencil, and a flesh pink rubber eraser. That was what was given when you were to write something in school. Then as the years went by we had the marble print laser copier paper, mechanical pencils more complicated than most toaster ovens, and enough cappucino to keep sleep at bay. That was still writing.
So does this random tidbit of text typed on a 87-button keyboard backed by an LCD screen count as writing? Would it matter if I wrote a minimum 5000 words or 10 pages worth? What if I were to add a thesis, some cold hard facts, and those little superscript numbers that just look so cool?
Would what I have been stricken with lately, would that still be considered writer’s block? Because, nothing can really block electronic transfer of information, save a power outage or a really big resistor? Would how I’m going nowhere with this piece still sound just as constipated when written with a Bic pen on recycled paper?
I am thankful that I will probably never have to write academically again. I will not have to think of a thesis statement or trying to link subsequent paragraphs with the last line of the preceding paragraph. If I wanted to, I can start a new topic completely, without any warning.
I’m thinking of getting a Playstation 3, a Wii, or an Xbox 360. The lady is not keen on the XBox but I saw a video of that Earth Defence Force game and that’s just badass. Unadulterated gun-toting, alien and robot blasting action. I just had a visual overload orgasm.
See? No one will mark this off as a C or a D anymore. I am free to write what I want now and not worry about consequences (academically anyway). I won’t even proofread this to ensur that no typos were made. Or fragment sentences.
My concluding statement? I think I’m going to go without one. Seeing that I had no thesis statement to begin with, I don’t have to summarize any points here. I wrote nothing, about nothing, and for nothing. I have no attachments to this piece and neither will you.
