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For those of you that write your own stuff, how often do you show it to your friends and family?

>> No.19058959

Very often. I dont get why that would be embarrassing

>> No.19058963

Never

>> No.19058965

>>19058952
>how often do you show it to your friends and family?
I don't really do that, but some of them have bought one, read it, and told me afterwards.

>> No.19058972

>>19058952
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*!!!!!
Argh.
PS: They see it the same way (sometimes).

>> No.19058973

I don't. When I release my book I will get 4chan ads like the Call of the Crocodile guy and become loved by all. It's going to be a surprise to everyone who knows me.

>> No.19059333

>>19058959
You just put your mental illness out there for the world to see, huh?

>> No.19059506

If you are scared of what your family thinks of your writing then you are likely just using writing as an expression of your own vices and petty desires, rather than art.

>> No.19059615

>>19059506
What pretension

>> No.19059619

>>19059615
I don't know, you tell me.

>> No.19059626

>>19059619
I think art-creation is one of the most intensely personal things someone can do and it's more than understandable that some people would be hesitant to bare something that intimate to others whose respect they desire.

>> No.19059628

>>19059506
Or, your family are swine. Scripture tells us not to cast our pearls before swine.

>> No.19059630

>>19058952
Absolutely not. My family doesn't care, they hate that I am dedicated to pointless things.

>> No.19059633

>>19059626
Why would you think that unless you are writing something that might lower the respect people have for you?

>> No.19059635

>>19059633
You expect the same interpretation of art from all who view it?

>> No.19059636

>>19059628
Honour thy Mother and thy Father.

>> No.19059643

>>19059635
I think damaging the respect people hold for you, and them just not being into your work are two very different things.

>> No.19059644

>>19059643
I think those can both happen independently or at the same time.

>> No.19059652

>>19059506
Vice and Desires have no place in Art?

>> No.19059658

>>19059644
I think it goes without saying that if they lose respect for you then they probably didn't like your work.

>> No.19059671

>>19059658
Does it? I have a very gay uncle (closeted) who secretly loves my work but has no respect for me because he's afraid of me being so out might cause him to be revealed.

>> No.19059677

>>19059652
Not what I am saying. When art becomes a means for indulging a vice it usually suffers as the art exists as a mere vehicle to satisfy some petty want.
Art that takes vice as its subject can be plenty good.

>> No.19059684

>>19059636
Yes, however:
Luke 12:51-53
Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

>> No.19059685

>>19058959
Family is obnoxious and will downtalk you/dismiss your shit.

>> No.19059686

>>19059671
Seems like the reasons he doesn't respect you is perpendicular to your art.

>> No.19059687

>>19059686
Without the art, would the disrespect be there?

>> No.19059711

>>19059684
This is the ground upon which your conduct is judged. Not a rebuttal. Nor obsoleting of your familial duties, merely the state of affairs.

>> No.19059717

>>19059687
You didn't make it sound like the disrespect derived from the art. Is it?

>> No.19059734

>>19059711
It really depends on what the word "honor" means in context of the commandment.

>> No.19059789

>>19058952
Never. Shortly after I started writing I realized most either make it about me or about themselves, they will see it as truth about me or thinly veiled criticism about them, got tiring quickly. I found that it was affecting my writing, I was getting concerned about how the people in my life will take it instead of how my readers will take it, so I removed the issue the only way I could, as far as everyone in my life knows, I no longer write. The downside is that if I ever make it someone will likely put in the time to figure out my identity (publish under a pseudonym) and then everyone in my life (mainly family) will be offended that I kept it from them. The downside is that it removed all care about what the family will think or read into it, all and my stories about familial expectations and keeping up the appearances of the caring family unit in modern society keep getting accepted and printed, it will not turn out well if my family ever finds out and reads them despite the stories not being about them, only informed by them. Still have a long ways to go before I really have to worry about such things, but each story that gets printed makes it all a little more real.

>> No.19059797

>>19059789
Well, that is somewhat painful to read. It would be nice to be able to edit on a screen, it seems beyond me, have to print it out first. Would think that 30 years of computer use would leave me reasonably adept in such things.

>> No.19059992

>>19058952
My parents have no idea. My mother sent me a picture of my book in BnN and said "Look, this guy has the same name as you"

>> No.19060314

>>19059992
by the time you submitted it for publishing did you have to change it a lot before it actually got onto shelves? what are the things publishers usually want to get rid of?

>> No.19060320

>>19060314
It was a space opera published through Tor Books and they're the only publishing house I've had experienced with, but they were very hands-off. The editing team ask for zero plot-related or pacing changes, they were purely scanning for grammar and word choice. The manuscript I sent them is basically what they printed.

>> No.19060638

>>19058952
>friends

>> No.19060640

>>19060638
And there it is folks, the first pathetic self-pity post of the thread! Let's have a round of applause for our winner!

>> No.19060650

>>19060640
>Let's have a round of applause for our winner!
This but unironically because I relate

>> No.19060679

I wrote a romance novel where the male lead is an idealized version of myself and the female lead is an amalgamation of various crushes I've had over the years. The only people I allowed to read it are my therapist and an acquaintance

>> No.19060696

>>19059626
You sound like a massive insecure faggot — just like Alexander Pennington — who should kill themselves because you’re not going to produce anything notable and no one is interested — not even your family — in your “story”

>> No.19060698
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19060698

>>19060696
>—

>> No.19060714

My dad would have beat the shit out of me if he'd caught me writing poetry. I didn't even let see me reading

>> No.19060737

>>19060698
>anime
Cope, tranny

>> No.19060758

>>19058952
Never, because I steal people from my own life, and the most interesting people to use are the ones who would be most offended by their depictions.

>> No.19061337

>>19060696
Sick dashes bro very erudite.

>> No.19061353

>>19061337
>S-s-sic-c-ck d-d-dash-hes br-r-ro very e-e-e-rudi-i-iite

>> No.19061374

>>19059333
Nice digits but nah I'm both sane and a good writer

>>19059685
Mine dont do that, they are pretty much entirely encouraging of things I do

>> No.19061382

>>19061337
kek

>> No.19061411

>>19058952
>friends
Hardly ever
>family
don't

>> No.19061451

>>19058952
Being a writer means caring about words, not stories.
And no, I don't want the whole world to read me.

>> No.19061464

>>19061451
You have no idea what being a writer means

>> No.19062028

>>19059992
kek

>> No.19062072

>>19059789
Redpilled.