Funny bits with your novel + family

[kosamsel]

My mom is very supportive in… the sense that I tell her how my writing is going and what my word count is and she congratulates me, but she asked me once what I write *about* and I had to very gently tell her it was NOT anything you’d ever want to share with your parents LMAO.

 

[HisDivineShadow]

My mom is very supportive in… the sense that I tell her how my writing is going and what my word count is and she congratulates me, but she asked me once what I write *about* and I had to very gently tell her it was NOT anything you’d ever want to share with your parents LMAO.

You made me smile ?
Thank you
But yes… you’re right

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My family refuses to even touch my books. My mom usually likes reading fantasy, but years ago for some reason she'll never explain, she told me to stop asking her to read them because she's never going to. I remember being a teenager and going "Mom, I wrote a story! Wanna read it?" "No, honey. I'm reading Harry Potter." "But you've read Harry Potter five times already...this year." "And when I'm done, I'm going to read it again!"

That's kind of cold. Honest, but cold.

The only thing my dad hates more than reading is fantasy in general. Anything that couldn't conceivably happen in real life is "baby stuff." He's fine with me writing it, but it drives him insane that I give my books away for free. To him, the only reason to write (or do anything, really) is to make money. He's the kind of guy who retired from his full time job and had five part time jobs a week later because his only real hobby is making money. I learned to stop telling him about my books years ago when the first question out of his mouth was never "What's it about?", but "How much are you selling it for?"

Sadly he died about a year before we met, but my wife's dad was a lot like that. The only fiction he ever got into at all were Westerns. Occasionally he would read science fiction, but only for ideas to try and make real (after helping start the army air corps, he retired from the military to teach at MIT) and thought anything else that wasn't not-fiction was baby stuff.

 

[Bartun]

Nobody in my family knows I write, only my brother, who also writes.

 

[BreadIsACuisine]

Never have I ever had a family.
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[Arch9CivilReactor]

I have an aunt who wrote my first fantasy story and asks if I still write. The problem is I write smutty stuff now so I told her ‘No…’.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I have an aunt who wrote my first fantasy story and asks if I still write. The problem is I write smutty stuff now so I told her ‘No…’.

Write something to show her! She deserves even a short story.