Now that the opening of The Winter's Tale draws nigh, my attention is turning more towards what I have done. I believe that throughout this project I have been far more self-aware than I have been previously. Part of this greater self-awareness has come from the fact that I have been blogging about my process - this blog - throughout. Having to make my thoughts more coherent for someone else to read helps focus me on what actually is important rather than letting myself ramble on too much. Also, having Google Analytics installed helps me to keep updating my blog regularly to see if you are coming back to read what I am writing or how many new people are reading my pearls of wisdom. And - because the act of writing something makes it more clear - I am also finding ways to solve my problems and am gaining the heart to face them.
I have, however, encountered two particular problems when I have been blogging: having an advertising blog and actors' anonymity. My Current Projects Blog is designed to advertise the production. So, obviously, it would be inappropriate to mention certain things in there. Then, if I am having problems with certain actors, I must be very careful in how I speak about them. Particularly since there may be nothing inherently "wrong" with what they are doing but there may just be a personality clash in which I myself am not completely blameless. Then again, this is a general point about blogs: what you write is in the public domain and may remain there in perpetuity so if you bag people you may be looking like an ass; in looking like an ass, you write yourself as an ass in indelible ink.
1 comment:
Truthfully what you write in a blog is not in indelible ink, you can always come back and edit what you have written: as most will only link to and not actually save what you have written.
I do understand what you mean by this post. I have tried twice to create a blog about my job but I keep encountering a problem: in what can I and can I not discuss while still having no restrictions on my blog. There is really no way with blogspot to pick who can and can not read posts within your blog, unless you restrict the whole blog.
This post only confirms the concerns I have about trying to cover some topics within a blog.
Thanks
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