Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Guess I'll be vulnerable first

Hey! the blog is up. You two accepted invites, and you're both admins now, so feel free to change things around to fit your style. (I am very new to blogging... )

So.... Can we just start a blogversation(haha...) and go from there? Would you guys rather have structured posts about everything we read for class and then reply, blah, blah,..?




As far as my vulnerability as a writer goes, here's my two cents:

As writers, we place a little of ourselves out there into the world every time we do our work, and we invite our audiences into some of our most vulnerable places.

Each time I complete an assignment and turn it in, I put a small portion of myself on a page and I ask someone who purportedly knows more about life tell me what they think of my snapshot. Every article, blog post, novel, status update, and e-mail that anyone has ever written has taken a sample of the writer's true self and put it on display.

From here, I pose you a question. When we put ourselves on Facebook (or blogspot... whatever), do we invite ourselves to be vulnerable to the world? Or does the presence of a screen act as a filter; a curtain behind which our true selves hide and put forth the portions of our being that are not vulnerable to attack?

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