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So, my mother is one of the main people that reads my work. I know, everyone always says never let your family read your work before its done. Well, my mother used to write, so she has a lot of insight.
Except today she and I got in a little argument.
She told me how I should do a scene differently. Not as in a small change, this would have required a rewrite. I've already rewritten this scene once, and I got really frustrated at her because I have agents waiting on this manuscript, and I feel like if I write scenes the way she thinks it should go, it's no longer my novel. I know that that isn't my mom's intention. She's just trying to help me create a great novel (on my own merit).
When I've heard that you don't let family read your stuff, I thought it was because none of them would tell you the truth! Not because they might think you should change whole scenes!
I don't mind normal critical comments from my mom, and I appreciate them, but I just don't want her to tell me how I should write my novel.
Except today she and I got in a little argument.
She told me how I should do a scene differently. Not as in a small change, this would have required a rewrite. I've already rewritten this scene once, and I got really frustrated at her because I have agents waiting on this manuscript, and I feel like if I write scenes the way she thinks it should go, it's no longer my novel. I know that that isn't my mom's intention. She's just trying to help me create a great novel (on my own merit).
When I've heard that you don't let family read your stuff, I thought it was because none of them would tell you the truth! Not because they might think you should change whole scenes!
I don't mind normal critical comments from my mom, and I appreciate them, but I just don't want her to tell me how I should write my novel.