Narrative Blogs

The blogs our group decided to focus on were narrative blogs. Narrative blogs come in many different forms but we found interest in the ones who's bloggers had specific goals in mind. One common goal-oriented blog is a relationship blog. One example of that is Single Mom Seeking where Rachel Sarah chronicles her experiences in the dating world as a single mother. Another relationship blog is Sex, Lies, & Dating in the City which is an outlet for an anonymous social media consultant to share her experience in the dating world.



A different kind of blog, similar to the dating blogs, is a weight loss blog. We found one by a self-proclaimed "token fat girl" called All My Natural Weight Loss where Lorrie not only talks about her struggle with her self image, and her quest to lose weight, she also sells her artistic creations, judges products, and provides recipes for people who are in the same boat as her. Another weight loss blog, Less Jess, let's Jessica Scott share her tips for weight loss and battling food cravings.



The last blog we'd like to touch on is the Julie/Julia blog. This is one of the most famous forms of a narrative blog, brought to public light by the recent Julie & Julia film starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The movie shows the journey, through a blog, one girl, Julie, takes, by going through every one of Julia Child's recipes. We see her progress through these, and her struggles cooking, and her relation to Julia Child. The blog became so large that it became a book, and the book then became a movie.