Writers (and readers) who are also, in their own way, fineapples. All friendly here.
Hi :)
I've just arrived here, so I thought I'd say hello. I write wurdz and stuff. Some people like them...except my kids. My kids refuse to read them. Anyone else have this issue?




My kid still hasn't read my books. :)
If it makes you feel better, my kids love you stuff. So much so that I have to have a conversation with them on a regular basis on how I'm too allergic to dogs to get an Irish wolf hound.
I don't have kids, but my wife hasn't read my books. But she's helped me a ton by helping me untangle plots and character motivations! So it's not like she has no interaction with my writing
I'd love that sort of feedback. My family think my writing is a mid-life crisis lol.
Oh no! Family not interested in supporting your creative passion? Hey, plenty of well-known writers only had success with or discovered writing after their middle years. They were also parents juggling work and family. Ursula Le Guin. Caryl Churchill. Many others. You've got lots of role models to be encouraged by.
In our home, it's not scoffed at because I've always been involved in arts production. So is my husband. I went from being an artsy child, to a young adult studying these things in earnest at a uni, and then chasing professional opportunities.
So it would be disingenuous of any of my extended relatives to pretend what I did now was a middle-aged affectation. And yet - get this - one can have nice awards and reviews, travel the world for work, and still get scoffing. It's irrational. I laugh it off. So is what you're dealing with.
Some people play sports, love collecting antiques, or go camping. Why can't your great love be writing? Why should that tickle anyone's cynicism? Go write beautiful things.
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saidwritten.I'm the same as Emmie, my husband reads my books when he has time, which is close to never. I've started reading them to him while we drive (he's an Audible guy anyways) and that's been pretty neat. Although it does tend to point out the errors I missed in proofs ...
My daughter has read some of my stuff. My sons haven't read anything. My husband is super supportive of my writing, but says he doesn't want to read anything in progress. He wants to read them one time, when they're done.
I've written a number of articles for our local paper, though, and my husband has been super helpful in proof-reading and providing input on those.
Kinda. My partner reads my work, but I tend to write faster than he reads, so...
He does engage with my worldbuilding spitballing sessions, etc though!
My ex flat out refused to read anything I wrote, which...was a major bummer.
Hello. I guess I'm the odd duck here, because not only have my kids read my book, but they follow my blog. They have even convinced some of their friends to read my blog. I find myself thinking, "Is this okay for my kids and their friends to read?" before I post anything.
Oh! Do you feel this constrains you? I don't keep any social media presence at the moment, but when the possibility of it comes up, we are always discussing the idea of a kid-friendly venture. I am otherwise fearless (and sometimes) capricious in my speech, but think there are so many good reasons to 'think of the children'. I think of it as a different sort of headline test, and another way to test my writing. What else (apart from age of audience) are you taking into consideration?
I don't feel like this constrains me. In fact, I feel like writing with my kids in mind helps push me to be better, more focused in my writing. I too don't keep much of a social presence, mostly because it's way too easy to spent time in social media and not get any work done.
As for your last question, knowing that my kids will read my blog helps me to calm down and not just rant. One of the scariest parts of being a parent is knowing that you are a role model for your kids and by extension, their friends. So I put more effort into being the person I want to be, and the person I want them to have as a role model.
Great! I loved the idea of the 'person you want to be' for them.