Blogging as Storytelling

Personal bloggers are always saying that they are JUST bloggers, NOT "writers," but guess what? -- if you are stringing words into coherent sentences and publishing your stories online, you are a writer. And if content is king, as they say, why do you spend so much time worrying about marketing and promoting your blog, and so little time developing your craft?

This session will try to recapture some of those heady, half-drunken, freshman year discussions that you used to have in your college dorm while in your PJs, as we discuss the principles of storytelling, and how they are fundamentally the same in Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Adventures of Curious George, and your own mommyblog.

This session won't be about about getting an agent or being published. It will be about appreciating blogging, and seeing it as a new chapter in the long tradition of storytelling.  Think of yourself as a modern Scheherazade who must come up with 1001 amazing and adventurous Arabian Blog Posts in order to remain alive!

YOU are the author of your own blog.  Are you the main character?  What is the point of view of this character?  On life?  On relationships?  On writing?  How do you want to be perceived by the reader?  Are your secondary characters, your family and friends in your life story, presented as three-dimensional personas?  Does each blog post require a beginning, middle, and end?  Should you be loyal to the facts or is it better to embellish your stories in order to reach a higher truth?  

And learn a top secret:  Why the best bloggers learn their craft from watching... soap operas?!

Join like-minded writers and bloggers who want to explore their literary side as we discuss the most important aspect of the blogging experience -- storytelling.

My name is Neil Kramer and my blog is Citizen of the Month.  Insights into creativity and multi-media storytelling will be discussed by Amy of Doobleh-vay.

I hope you will be interested in participating in this roundtable (another literary reference!) discussion.   It will be fun and informative.

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