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6

Writing Things Down

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Komikero meeting today! Just hanging around the house waiting to leave, and wondering about what Manuel Viloria twittered earlier. He wondered if people would eventually gravitate towards private blogging.

I think people already are, with privacy settings already in place in many blog services. This blog has a privacy setting, which when activated, only allows authorized users to read it. If I don’t allow other users to read it, and I still write these entries, it will effectively become a private blog.

In effect, it’s very much like writing a diary in the old pre-Internet days where nobody could read your writings but you. I have several diaries like that which I keep in the old house. Reading through those entries I’m startled at how much more emotional, or how much angrier I was in those days. But then, the privacy that writing in a paper diary allowed me to be more forthcoming with my emotions. I suspect that I could still write that, say what I really think, without fear or consequence, if this were a private blog.

It made me realize how compromised this blog really is. How can I be completely honest without being sued, without offending and hurting a whole lot of people…. if people have been offended and hurt in the past by things I write here, you have no idea of what I really think and what I’m capable of writing.

So what’s the purpose of this blog then? Right now I’m thinking very hard about it. Is it only a vehicle in which I can promote my work, or promote the work of Filipino comics creators? I think I’m capable of a certain amount of honesty here. Honesty about myself, honesty about other people. It doesn’t mean I haven’t been truthful in anything I’ve written here. Of course not. Everything I’ve written here is as honest as I can publicly stand.

Can I go further? Can people handle much more honesty and can I handle the consequences of it? Can I reveal all the secrets that I know that frustrate me and infuriate me about this local comics industry and the people in it? I’m not sure. But what I do know is a lot of people won’t like me when…well… when you make me really angry.

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