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Tell us about the blog post you were most nervous to publish — and what it was like to set it free.
I haven’t been nervous about publishing my posts, at least the ones on my personal blog. I haven’t yet shared any deep dark secrets about myself, that may come later in life or not. When I do share my thoughts about my struggles with anorexia and my recovery, I am not nervous about sharing them, on the contrary I hope that if someone can be helped or at least feels that they aren’t alone, that makes writing about it even easier.
On the other hand, my political blog is a different story. There have been a few instances when I have had less then amiable comments or responses. While at the moment of publishing, nervousness isn’t part of my mindset, sometimes after I click the publish button, I reread what I have written and say to myself “this might not go over very well with some people who disagree with my political philosophy” and more often than not, I do get a negative response telling me how incredibly wrong I am and my views are what is destroying America. At first it was difficult to read those comments because it felt very personal but now I have come to accept them for what they are, a difference of opinion and thinking, I am free to think how I think and it’s my blog. So if they do not like it, they do not have to read it.
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Hi Laurie…I get very nervous publishing anything that feels or seems critical or controversial, even if it’s got a valid point. Many times I get nervous enough to lose my nerve, then I take the piece down. I don’t have the strength it takes to be controversial or critical. You are not alone in feeling nervous, but *you are brave* to publish anyway, even if people don’t “like.”
I think that you are brave as well, you continue to write even if you have taken it down on occasions, at least you wrote it down. I completely understand where you are coming from, I can not handle confrontation, I run the other way, but I have over the few years that I have been writing, developed a thinker skin, primarily because the negativity is faceless, thank goodness, face to face criticism and negative comments is too much for me to bear. So happy writing for both of us!
That’s sort of my attitude, but I work hard not to be offensive 🙂
I can’t imagine you ever being offensive, ever. 🙂
Wait till you smell me 🙂
lol you are way too funny!