Comments on: A Room of Our Own, Take Two

By: Citizen of the Month » The Fonzie of Bloggerdom

Citizen of the Month » The Fonzie of Bloggerdom — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:07:56 +0000

[...] you are a member of BlogHer, and you think this “Blogging as Storytelling” is a good idea for a session at the conference in Chicago, please log-in and vote for [...]

By: Momo Fali

Momo Fali — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:11:33 +0000

I love this idea. LOVE IT.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:28:49 +0000

I would totally come to that session and not just because we are friends. It’s actually of interest to me!

By: Diane Mandy

Diane Mandy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:10 +0000

I am considering attending BlogHer. This idea interests me so much that it might push me to register today!

By: churchpunkmom

churchpunkmom — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:21:33 +0000

Dude, if I were going to BlogHer, I would totally attend that. It’s right up my ally! Especially seeing as my blog is really not a ‘mommy blog’ but more of a ‘story telling blog’ anyway. It’s a tool I use to show off my writing.. and more than that.. but I know what most people come to my site for.

Awesome idea. I hope they’re smart enough to run with it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:33:39 +0000

Mom Blogs – Blogs for Moms…

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By: Backpacking Dad

Backpacking Dad — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:40:14 +0000

It’s not skill with words I mean, but love of, affection for, and attention to them. Like I said, I don’t mean to rank writers and storytellers on the same spectrum, even, because the concerns are different. I know that when some say “I’m a blogger, not a writer” they might have some value-laden statement in mind, that they think they lack some skill or something and that’s why they don’t self-identify. I agree with you if you mean to note that even these are writers; that there is nothing standards-oriented that would validate their strange assertion, so why not claim writerhood? But I mean to remark that someone might be perfectly skilled, and not self-identify as a writer, and do so legitimately.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:59:10 +0000

Backpacking — as usual, you write thought-provoking comments. I will need to think about this one. I wonder if we are just disagreeing on the semantics of the word writer. While you are right that not everyone is a true “writer,” I’m sure that you will agree that there is a lot in common between the storyteller in any tradition, written and oral, and the narrative writer. As for the love of language issue, I have read some terrific books for children that were written on a third grade level, with limited vocabulary that blew me away, and I would consider those authors to be writers.

Most blogs are not great art, but if the author communicates something with words, and gets an emotion from me, why shouldn’t I consider him a writer?

A zombie movie on cable and Citizen Kane are both movies, and I can enjoy them both.

But I hear what you are saying.

By: Backpacking Dad

Backpacking Dad — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:09:04 +0000

This is a great idea for a panel.

But I completely disagree about bloggers all being writers.

I am a storyteller, but not a writer. And I don’t mean to elevate writers by that, or disparage storytelling. I just don’t love language in the way I think a writer should. If I could tell you a story by instantly changing your neural connections so that they resemble a network that contains the story as experience rather than one that doesn’t, I would do that instead. I’m trying to affect minds, and culture, by making it more like me. Words are almost an impediment to that for me.

I kinda hate words. :}

By: anymommy

anymommy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:17:05 +0000

I like this one too – really great job with the proposal.