When a writer crafts a post (as opposed to merely doing a brain dump), they distill, expand, and yes change or add information to their story. I agree: if the intent is elegance and concision, it is intellectually honest.

Moreover, a blogger's posts need to be put into context; if you read only a few and make detailed judgements about them, it's like reading one chapter of a book and deciding it's bad.

Personally, I don't care at all if a blogger's stories are literally true or not; I don't know them. I am a bit surprised at the anger and vehemence of those who feel deceived by bloggers who "lie".

As for a blog being non-fiction or not, I view a blog as a product of a specific kind of content-management system. People can make whatever they want out of it, though I appreciate knowing how much salt I'm supposed to take with it.

Haven't a f**king clue Why, since I'll not get a job after as a dramaturg, but am, after all that, a dramaturgy student.

Thanks for believing in me.

Sorry, I just realised that everyone else had been extremely incisive and intellectual and good and clever and stuff in their comments.

And I wasn't.

Too late now. (as, ahm, Oscar Wilde said, when, ahm, no, it's no good. *Insert clever joke here*) (Now that's why I'm a dramaturg, rather than a writer...)

I definitely sympathize with not being able to get a job with one's degree. This is why I'm getting a professional masters, because my bachelors is in German Studies and European Studies — interesting but not particularly useful.

Save your cleverness for your blog, anyway.

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Questions about literariness have morphed into issues of truth and deceit in storytelling, though that's not really surprising since those issues of voice and trust are at the center of so much of the weblogging enterprise. They aren't, however, the wh...

Dorothea's recent referral to a certain kind of crisis reminds me of a story that isn't wholly mine to tell.