Welcome to the blog–Exeunt Clown. This title was inspired by a stage direction in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus–not because that’s one of my favorite plays–but because of the idea of the “clown” leaving the stage. Exeunt=Exit.
Writers Write
I am an Enneagram 7w6. This type is often referred to as “the clown.” I called my blog Exeunt Clown because I’m pretty tired of being the silliest person in the room. Like all enneagram 7s, I want to be taken seriously and not seen as a bumbling buffoon. So, I’ve finally started my blog (again). One thing 7s have trouble with is follow-through. Unfortunately, that’s me, and it’s always been me. My hope is that I can take myself seriously enough to create a discipline around blogging. Why? Writers write. Writers make time to write. Maintaining a blog requires that I do just that. No more emailing myself copies of my creations or keeping my writing in notebooks or saving it onto flash drives or printing out hard-copies and then storing them in file folders in case I lose all of my digital reserves.
Categories
This blog contains 3 categories:
- 1. Wisdom from the Stage–where I take lines from plays and write about how they translate into real life.
- 2. Original Poetry–where I’ll post my most recent poems experimenting with meter
- 3. Writer’s Journal–where I will be working on the characters and plots for my plays and scripts in progress
Mantra
I am not the clown! That’s my mantra for this documentation of myself.
Thank you for being here!
I am not the clown.
I am not the clown.
Exeunt.
