Blogebrity

People Will Do Anything to Become a Blogebrity

JJ Macmillan is a blogger/novelist/screenwriter from Texas. On his blog, Purgatorian, he runs a popular weekly writing exercise called “Flash Friday” where bloggers have to write a short story starting with a sentence of JJ’s choosing.

JJ is an excellent writer himself. His memory pieces are especially good, weaving tales of his childhood, past jobs, and past relationships.

We chatted via IM:

“Do you think it would be interesting to write about me for Blogebrity?” he asked.

“Uh… not really. Your life is pretty domestic nowadays. Angelina writes about all these cool New York bloggers and her Blogebrity posts are written about in Gawker.”

“But isn’t the quality of the writing the most important thing about a blog?”

I laughed at his naivete.

‘You’re a great writer, JJ, but you’re a regular guy. You don’t go to parties. You’re not a performance artist. You’re just not that interesting as a Blogebrity.”

“Is there something I could do to make myself more interesting?”

“I’m not really sure. You don’t really live on either of the Coasts. Maybe if you did something really dramatic — like KILLED someone, then BLOGGED about it.”

Was I surprised that he actually thought about it? Not really. People will do anything to become a Blogebrity.

This entry was posted by Courtney Gidts on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 4:54 am and is filed under Underrated. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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