Choice vs Current Event

                Seeing as that you are here looking at this blog, it is safe to assume you are part of Mr. Economos’s AP Language Arts class and are (hopefully) working on this blog project. In this project, there are two types of blogs you must do, a choice blog, and a current event blog. In the choice blog, you can blog about anything you want, and in the current event blog, you must blog about a current even in the Georgia area. Which do you prefer?

                The choice blog with pretty much a bottomless pit of topics you can choose from may seem the easiest to write at first, but you may come across many road blocks on the way. I feel that the biggest problem with the choice blog is just that. The fact that you have to choose a topic from the endless possibilities in itself is a challenge. For the last two choice blogs, I found myself sitting in front of my computer trying to pick a suitable and interesting topic to write about. And for the last two choice blogs, I found that my inner muse has abandoned me in my time of dire need (hence my current blog topic). Despite the sheer amount of time it takes to come up with a topic, once the topic is chosen, the rest is a piece of cake. The words for these choice blogs seem to just flow onto the screen of my computer without conscious thought; almost like I’m talking rather than writing.

                The current even blog, on the other hand, is practically the exact opposite of the choice blog. Its greatest downside is that there is NOTHING to write about. The rubric states that the current event blog must “focus on local events: Atlanta and Georgia”. That’s just the problem! No one cares about Georgia. It’s probably one of the most forgettable states right alongside those mid-western states whose names I can never remember. In fact, in the last current event blog, the most interesting thing that I could find was that the Georgia Archives was not closed as previously planned. The MOST interesting thing that happened was that something didn’t happen. If finding a topic for the choice blog is like looking for a needle in a haystack, then finding a topic for the current event blog is like looking for a needle in the cold depths of space. In other words, nonexistent.

                Despite these draw backs, I rather like this project compared to others I have done. It is a chance for me to write freely without worrying about content or grammar (to an extent). I don’t have to follow a preset topic nor do I have a final goal to work towards Just 300+ words of whatever the heck I want.