this post is DiFfErEnT

So this weeks post is supposed to be different. My blog is already very different from the rest, at least I think it is. Regardless of if it is or is not different I feel comfortable saying that it is different because I haven't seen any other blogs posting stories like I do and maybe I'm just not reading enough? I dunno, if I'm not please let me know and I'll definitely go check out that one other blog and comment on what I like and don't like about it because that is always really helpful when writing, especially when writing stories.

Now if I am going to be different than I normally am this week I'll just write a sad poem about my childhood or that hot person who doesn't even know I exist so that I can get a whole lot of comments and feel better (seriously I have a total of like 9 comments and I'll be honest it's a little bit depressing to get zero feedback on the stuff that you have been pouring yourself into for the past several years; yes, before you ask, my story Below has been in the works since mid ninth grade I think.) So getting comments would be nice but I guess I don't want to be just another sad poet, and not because I am a heartless tourist who feels nothing. To the contrary, I feel a lot, so much in fact that at times I wish there was one big off switch that I could hit temporarily just to get a brief reprieve from it all; but there's not and the only off switch is permanent and that's not what I'm looking for. So instead of being another sad poet I choose to take all of my emotions and the sadness and use it to create something larger than life. I use it to create a new world with grand stories that I feel are very relatable to more people than you might think. And sometimes I just write a story about monsters and demons because I think that would be cool, because not everything needs to be deep and symbolic to be a beautiful piece of art.

Now before all of you loud mouth I'm-gonna-stand-up-for-the-oppressed-minority people start chewing me out in furious anger in the comments (assuming anyone is reading this besides Nelson) I'm not saying that sad poems about your ex backing over your dog aren't good, in fact I've enjoyed a lot of them and even commented on a few. However I really think that maybe we should all try something a little different because most every blog I read are sad poems about your drunk dad using your dog to beat on your now ex-boyfriend (isn't it weird how most of the sad "you don't see me" poems are all by girls, or I guess there could be a gay guy or two in the mix, but they all talk about some guy so yeah.I digress.) Anyways... I simply think that maybe we should experiment more, write a story! make up characters and use your situations to create something that is, in my opinion, far more unique than the lyrics to some kind of emo country song where at the end you've lost your dog, spouse, and sobriety. I guess that's the point of this prompt though, is to try something new, something that's maybe a little difficult or that could offend someone or that could wind up just being looked at as weird and kinda dumb by all the other bloggers. But just remember that the guy who wrote Eragon was told by all of his peers that a story about guys riding dragons and elves was stupid but now the guy is a freaking bojillionheir.

So go ahead and hate away if you want, because I'm sure I've offended someone, and this was not meant to be offensive. I wrote this because for the past couple weeks I've been doing something radically different and have noticed that all of the comments wind up on rants or poems or posts that are written with the intention of creating controversy (which by the way is lame and just lazy. stop it.) and I guess I was also kind of disappointed that in a CREATIVE writing class there seems to be about the same amount of creativity as there is in Hollywood which is very minimal and just kind of the same thing over and over again. So sorry if I offended anyone, I have actually enjoyed quite a few of the sad My-Boyfriend-and-Dog-Eloped-without-me poems because they are relatable but I think we should kind of branch out more as writers and try new things and then COMMENT on the posts after reading and give useful feedback. (Yes I'm a little upset that I haven't gotten any comments.)


Thank you for your time and God-Bless.