Hi, I’m having a fit
Madison is sleeping and I should be doing laundry. Or putting something in the crockpot. But I’m not because I’m avoiding the stupid SARK-y assignment from the writing class.
I hate this assignment. It’s stupid. And lame. (Kicking the table, arms crossed, glaring at the computer screen.) Dumb assignment!
It’s assignments like this that keep from writing classes, books on writing, and hanging out with an entire segment of the writing population. I am a Big Old Writing Snob and I don’t like prompts, I don’t like homespun exercises, I don’t like gentle encouragement to let your mind wander freely.
I already know how to freewrite! (She pouts.) I don’t wanna write on that topic! (She whines.) You can’t make me!
I’m such a baby.
But I still don’t want to do it.
I even tried writing about how I don’t want to do it but it got too insulting instead of funny like I’d hoped. And I tried skipping the first half, (which has an assigned topic) to do the second part of the exercise but even that just kinda sucked.
Maybe I’ll just embrace how saccharine it is and see if I can write it sarcastic.
What is it about me that I can’t just do something someone asked me to do even if I think it’s stupid? Why am I such a snob? I mean, it could be enlightening. I might learn something from it. (I doubt it, she sniffs.)
Why don’t you just do it sincerely? I am so curious what the topic is, makes me wonder what topics would make me wince and balk. Maybe you are too advanced for the topic but you are doing this course for yourself so why not just do every excercize without judging it,make that be your task. Maybe that will make it easier to get over the resistance you are having to this topic.
Resistance is an interesting response to this topic is it not? You have made me very curious now.