Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Most of us profess to like a good story, but do we?

Stories are important. They inform others of our path to where we are today. We love stories.

Or do we love the word “story?”

If we love stories, we would tell them often. We would type the words to the story so that others could “hear” the story later by reading those words.

In my experience, I find far more persons who like story than who will type the words to a story. They seem to love the word “story” more than an actual story.

I guess I have this all wrong. There is some fear of typing words that freezes persons. Maybe English teachers in public schools did this to people over the generations. “I’m not a writer.” Odd, everyone I know who has told me this was able to talk.

There is something about typing the words that we say that has been beaten out of us.

And who says public schools are not effective at teaching? Perhaps some teachers teach love of the word “story” without teaching love of story.