Anonymouse
Wondering about blogging semi-anonymously. I like it this way, but I wonder what the writing sounds like of a person without a face? Does it carry mystery or weight? Or is is just clearer and more direct, without an author pictured in the mind? Or is it just irritating, to not see your writer?
I'm intrigued by the voice a person uses, and what it sounds like once you know what they look like. I can't bear to see the author photo on a book jacket before reading a book, because too often it taints my reading. Hard to explain.
As a reporter, no one knows what my face is behind my byline, and that makes it feel easier to write forcefully, I believe. As now, with this blog, I wonder how it affects what we each say. Anonymous = Animate. Or Alien. Or Asinine. You decide.
posted by TK @ 13:12
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4 Comments:
Writing itself has a face.
I can see yours clearly. It may not be the reflection that you see in the mirror. I can see the talent. I can see the intelligence. I can see the knot that sometimes twists you up. Sometimes I can see the smile that glows on your face when you see sometime funny.
I agree about the author's face on a book. It changes everything.
Take Care
Michael
Thanks for the kind words.
I think writing anonymously is actually the ideal. There is nothing there for us to judge, there are fewer stigmas too attach. You let people hear your thoughts, you open up a very private part of yourself and ask people to look at it seperately from the rest. Take it as it is. Just a few words put together in a way that means something.
Ah, but you point to that thing that I'm not sure I'm doing or want to--opening up that private part. I like the discourse, I enjoy the banter. But I still wonder what it's all about. But maybe that's the fun...
(and hello, Lady X.)
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