Blog 27

While I was deciding on what I would write 250 words about today, I googled ‘Something to write 250 words about‘. Before I could find any solid ideas to write 250 words on, I came across a web article about an Australian man who wrote a book on how to write 480 words about anything. I read further, and I thought it was a pretty ridiculous book idea already, and found out that it was a book about nothing. Basically, this Australian man wrote hundreds of 480 word articles on completely random and almost nonsensical things - just to write 480 words. Then I decided that that was definitely the way to approach the assignment, and tried to think of my own ridiculous topics. It was much harder than I anticipated though. My creativity definitely took a blow from this challenge, and I regretted my condescending attitude towards the man and his idea. I found it very hard to write about any topic besides this one that I am now, because I guess I didn’t have anything else really going on in my head. That’s a little sad. He had ideas like, going around and throwing pies at famous politicians, or ‘protecting your children from Snow White’. I wondered even what he had to say on a few of the topics listed. I had nothing to say about those things, and not much more to say about many other things. All I had to say was about this subject, and I’m running out already, thank god I just hit 250 words about fifteen words ago.