The earlier thread about "what would your mother think?" was quite interesting to me because I feel like I'm not only mentally battling my parents, but also my SO. I've mentioned in other posts that I'm deeply in the closet as a writer (in fact, no one IRL knows about the last two stories I sold) and plan to be for life because past experience has shown me that my loved ones tend to read far too much into what I write about (I don't appreciate armchair psychoanalysis). I've even had to explain, at length and with some debate, that the "I" in a first-person story is NOT ME, something that you'd think anyone would understand instinctively.
Lately, my writing has come to a full halt because the idea I'm working on deals with a sensitive topic. Even though I use a pen name now and do not mention my writing to anyone, I'm having massive problems keeping the mental blinders on long enough to even get a coherent outline together. I keep worrying about what they will think even though they will never know I wrote it!
So, any tips from the wise writers out there to push past this? This is extremely frustrating!
Lately, my writing has come to a full halt because the idea I'm working on deals with a sensitive topic. Even though I use a pen name now and do not mention my writing to anyone, I'm having massive problems keeping the mental blinders on long enough to even get a coherent outline together. I keep worrying about what they will think even though they will never know I wrote it!
So, any tips from the wise writers out there to push past this? This is extremely frustrating!
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