tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post3531302832477833431..comments2024-03-28T08:02:30.057-04:00Comments on Word-Whores: Your Public Persona (Do You Need One?)K.A. Krantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06674754426001151828noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-20834887993695025802015-04-27T10:05:16.612-04:002015-04-27T10:05:16.612-04:00LOL! Well, since I don't got to church at all,...LOL! Well, since I don't got to church at all, I don't have that association. ;-) But your point is taken - sincerity is important, too.Jeffe Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779020656676094853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-41406979414882274342015-04-26T22:12:20.620-04:002015-04-26T22:12:20.620-04:00I'm not sure I fully agree with "best beh...I'm not sure I fully agree with "best behavior." To me, that's church behavior. There are reasons I only go to church with the family a couple times a year :P I prefer the term least-offensive-honest behavior. But now I'm just picky nits, which is kind of gross. *runs back to edits*Seleste deLaney/Julie Partickahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346934576672398786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-63497726271137759892015-04-26T18:09:54.386-04:002015-04-26T18:09:54.386-04:00How funny! I totally do that, too, Julie - pick a ...How funny! I totally do that, too, Julie - pick a fight with the title and then am happily surprised when I agree. I so agree with you that our public persona should reflect who we are and what we write (which should come from who we are). It should be us on our best behavior - not someone else entirely. :-)Jeffe Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779020656676094853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7663321286319002443.post-19823574866215104942015-04-26T14:47:14.440-04:002015-04-26T14:47:14.440-04:00LOL I actually came here ready to disagree with yo...LOL I actually came here ready to disagree with you because I've seen so many authors whose opinion on public persona is something akin to "yours needs to be just like mine" which...doesn't work. Instead I found myself nodding with everything you said. How you present yourself in public definitely should reflect your work. The way I usually say it is that every decision has consequences. No matter how you present yourself, someone isn't going to like it, and that's okay. It's their right. Our responsibility as authors is to make the choice to have a persona that 1) is in keeping with what we write (not necessarily genre, because that does change, but...tone, attitude, etc), 2) that we can maintain (which is one reason the "you should be just like me" doesn't work for me) at all times or at least the vast majority of the time. <br /><br />For myself, my persona is all the stuff that's in the tagline on my website: quirky, snarky, sexy. I sometimes fail on the execution of the sexy part, but damn it...I try ;-) Seleste deLaney/Julie Partickahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346934576672398786noreply@blogger.com