{"id":9231,"date":"2014-06-16T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9231"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T07:48:26","slug":"social-media-for-writers-public-or-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/social-media-for-writers-public-or-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media for Writers \u2013 Public or Private?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about how to juggle your personal and public profiles on social media. It talks about a time when I had the flu but, don&#8217;t worry, I wrote it a while ago and am not sick anymore (unless you want to count &#8216;sick with joy&#8217; over <a title=\"I just won a Ditmar Award!\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/i-just-won-a-ditmar-award\/\">my Ditmar win<\/a>!!!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>If you\u2019re on Facebook to share photos and news with family and friends \u2013 what should you do when you get a friend request from a writer you hardly know, but whom you\u2019d maybe like to get to know better? Do you befriend them, or if you don\u2019t what might happen \u2013 will they hate you forever? Do you keep some space on the internet reserved for friends and family and, if so, what and how? <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Do you simply keep your private life out of social media altogether? If so, how then will you stay true to yourself and \u2018be real\u2019 online? If you hold back, how will people connect with you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of that guest post <a title=\"CSFG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csfg.org.au\/2014\/06\/15\/social-media-for-writers-public-or-private\/\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about how to juggle your personal and public profiles on social media. It talks about a time when I had the flu but, don&#8217;t worry, I wrote it a while ago and am not sick anymore (unless you\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/social-media-for-writers-public-or-private\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[792,100,143,889,579],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writer-advice","tag-balance","tag-canberra-speculative-fiction-guild","tag-csfg","tag-public-or-private","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/csfg-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}