All the Blog’s a Stage. A Blogging Metaphor

And we are not merely players but the playwrights, directors, prop managers, stage managers and caterers. We set the stage, the scenery, lighting and the mood and our readers are not only our audience and critics but players as well. And like the theater, attending other plays is a must whether to praise, criticize or just enjoy ourselves. One must always put in our appearances after all. The play of course, never ends unless you choose to end it yourself.

Searches and link love are our playbills.

And it’s not a stage of the type that adorns just one end of a theater with orchestra and seats arranged in front of it, balconies above, but rather a “theater in the round” where you perform in all directions. And all is ad-lib and each page of the script is blank, waiting for you to write upon it. The character portrayed is yourself.

Captivating, boring, redundant, hilarious, sweet, sad–it’s all there for the taking and each one absolutely unique in it’s own right. And we as blogger’s are one another’s audience.

Enjoy the show.

If any of you are wondering why I wrote this little piece, it’s part of a group writing project at Successful Blog about coming up with your own blogging metaphor. Now maybe it was due to feeling so lousy of late but this was a lot harder for me than I thought it would be. Then my past theater background came in and saved the day.

Yeah, and I think my mother would understand it.

If you want to read what others have come up with, check out these lists that Liz has posted.

The first set

The second set

And the third set

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Liz Strauss wrote:
I particularly like your choice of metaphors. My theater background gravitates to it. It calls to mind the close relationships I had there that so resemble the ones that I enjoy now.
Posted 12 Jun 2007 at 10:29 am ¶
KirkM wrote:
Hi Liz,
There are similarities aren’t there? I knew there was something familiar about you. You just can’t hide that theater background.

To blog or not to blog, that is the question. To whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous comments etc, etc, etc. (All apologies to the Shakespeare)
Posted 12 Jun 2007 at 12:28 pm ¶

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