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hello!

anyone else ever feel like they lovelovelove to write and want others to read it? but at the same time, they don't want people to read it? esp. parents?

and also, anyone enjoy living vicariously through their characters?

thx!

~clandestineturtle

submitted by clandestineturtle, age x, milky way
(October 5, 2020 - 9:27 pm)

back to the Pudding's Place

YES! YES! YES! This is me. I think I know why I don't like to show people my writing. I always imagine my parents or a friend reading my writing and then hating it, so then I think every time they look at me, all they'll think about is that piece of bad writing. So, to avoid this altogether, I don't show my writing to anyone except my sister for editing. I know this wouldn't really happen because my parents are really supportive, but I still can't bring myself to show anyone in real life. I'm fine with posting story snippets on here, in fact I just posted a small snippet of a story of mine a a Flash Fiction thread last week, because I can ignore mean comments, but I can't ignore someone I love telling me my writing is bad. 

ANYWAYS, I too live vicariously through my characters too. I'll give them a cool hair color or have them go skydiving or whatever so it feels like I am too.

submitted by Sophie T., Gotham
(October 6, 2020 - 10:36 am)

Yep, me too! I've never showed anyone irl my writin. I think most writers feel like this when they're beginning, though. 

submitted by Azalea, age 13, Earth
(October 6, 2020 - 5:28 pm)
submitted by TOPleaf, age TOP!, Steeping
(October 6, 2020 - 2:12 pm)

I... wow. This is exactly accurate. It used to seem that as soon as I shared my writing, I would stop wanting to write it, so I stopped sharing instead. Yet for some reason, the idea of publishing my work someday doesn't faze me, as long as no one I know personally reads it. 

submitted by Summer, age tau, Nowhere at all
(October 6, 2020 - 7:41 pm)

Same!

submitted by Sophie T., Gotham
(October 7, 2020 - 10:42 am)

YES. Cuz I'm just... I dunno. I like to have my writing as something that is mine, and for me, and whenever I share it with someone, it's like entrusting them with a little bit of my soul. 

(ok, that was kind of dramatic, but you get what I'm trying to say...)

And yes living vicariously as my characters is kind of fun sometimes, when ya know, my character isn't in mortal danger or whatever... Although it still is kind of fun then.

 

submitted by Majestic Mary, age 1 eternity, Majestopia
(October 6, 2020 - 8:17 pm)

No, you're not being dramatic, because I feel this way too. Even though you aren't supposed to, I think everyone ends up writting a little bit of themselves into their characters. So, if someone reads the story and says, "I liked it, but hated when char. A would say,"BANANAS!" instead of cussing," it feels like a personal attack on you as a person. At least, that's how I feel.

submitted by Sophie T., Gotham
(October 7, 2020 - 10:41 am)

I'M GUILTY OF THAT!!!

The stuff I'm writing right now is TOTALLY CLASSIFIED, so NO-ONE'S gonna read it. Not even if they offer me one million bucks!

Only Ripley, two of my IRL friends, and I know what I'm writing about. All I can tell oyu, is that in every book I've been writing about lately has my crush in it, weither it's his real name, or his character in a Champion Heart, Bradley.

submitted by Emekittycon Kitten, age 12, Kitten Kingdom
(October 8, 2020 - 11:37 am)
submitted by Top cause this is me
(October 9, 2020 - 10:06 am)