Multiple genres and voices

In all my blog writing so far, every time I've written "I", I have been speaking for myself. I've also been very careful in what I've written, to be as honest and truthful and accurate as possible -- stating what I do know and don't know.

I'm getting tired to writing in just this way.

So how can I write a poem or a story or a blob of text or drop in a drawing in this space without the "I" literary being "me"? Should I depend on context? Should I use some type of typographic or graphical convention? Should I mark it "story" or "fiction". I hope that if I'm writing a parody (say a parody of myself), that I wouldn't have to explicitly mark it with "Warning: self-parody".

How do others do this? There are probably examples in my own blogging community of such doings -- forgive me for not paying closer attention and missing out. Something I think that Laura might have something in her blog of this nature. Maybe Chris or Lloyd or Catherine. I thought tonight that textism might be what I wanted to study -- but my initial look did not yield what I wanted. Actually, maybe it's Ray Davis who has blogs that address this issue.

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  1. The most extreme example of multiple personae that I’m familiar with is Wealth Bondage (not workplace safe):

    http://www.wealthbondage.com/

    The “real person” author has made this allegorical weblog multi-author with multiple members — but each member is just himself under a different identity.

    Other weblog authors handle the switch between genres by using categories. One example is Alex Golub, whose weblog easily switches between serialized fiction, autobiography, and scholastic interests:

    http://alex.golub.name/log/

    Have fun!

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