I love my fellow writers, and I get that we need people to read our words, but one thing I hate is people posting a piece and tagging fifty-five of their friends to it. This is like going up to fifty-five people, tapping their shoulders, and saying “HEY, READ WHAT I WROTE.” That’s not cute. First of all, again, our friends can support our work, but they are not obligated to. When we do the tagging thing, we’re basically pulling them into a crowded room and interrogating them about whether or not they’ve seen what we did. Don’t put folks in that position. If you’re in their social-media family,
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