If you haven’t ever blogged before, you might not be sure what the response might be.\u00a0 Usually, you just wait and wonder….<\/p>\n
But when there is<\/em> a response, and even if you haven’t written about anything controversial, be prepared for carping, quibbling, and inanity.\u00a0 Because the Internet has made snark as popular as The Walking Dead, <\/em>and you might sometimes feel like you’re being pursued by brain eaters.<\/p>\n When you blog, there are certain things that will happen for sure:<\/p>\n Someone will pounce on any typo or spelling error and TYPE THE CORRECTION LIKE THIS SO YOU CANT MISS IT.<\/p>\n Someone will ignore what you wrote and talk about their own boring or weird obsession.<\/p>\n Someone will channel a seventh grade teacher and hector you about a grammar myth like split infinitives or ending sentences with prepositions.<\/p>\n Someone will tell you that you meant “nauseated” not “nauseous”–and be dead wrong.<\/p>\n Someone will not remotely address anything you’ve said, but just attack you personally.<\/p>\n Someone will accuse you of not having read the book or watched the show\/movie you’re writing about if you happen to spell any character’s name incorrectly.<\/p>\n Someone will completely miss the point if you write satire and excoriate you.<\/p>\n Someone will accuse you of relying on spell-checking alone and not having bothered to really edit.<\/p>\n Someone will call you a hater if you dare to criticize a favorite book, movie, TV show, celebrity–or anything at all.<\/p>\n Someone will twist one of your points and respond with a rant that’s two or three times longer than your entire blog.<\/p>\n Someone will accuse you of lacking a sense of humor, or conversely attack you for not taking things seriously enough.<\/p>\n Someone will sneeringly call you a hack, even if you’ve never written anything before and they don’t know what the word means.<\/p>\n The problem is, those people are often the only ones who take the time to comment. What is everybody else doing?<\/p>\n Blogging, of course.<\/p>\n So what about you?\u00a0 What kinds of comments did you get on your blogs?\u00a0 Do the types listed above ring true?\u00a0 Can you add others?<\/em><\/p>\n Lev Raphael is the author of 25 other books in genres from memoir to mystery. You can find on Amazon here<\/a>. If you haven’t ever blogged before, you might not be sure what the response might be.\u00a0 Usually, you just wait and wonder…. But when there is a response, and even if you haven’t written about anything controversial, be prepared for carping, quibbling, and inanity.\u00a0 Because the Internet has made snark as popular as The Walking … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[497,184,183,182,193,194,506,508],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-authors","tag-bloggers","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-internet-trolls","tag-snark","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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