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Pengi:
I would NEVER let my coworkers or my family read my current fan-fiction. I'd probably puff into smoke. I barely have the balls to let them read my essays or my original fiction snippets when they ASK to read them, lol. It's not that I don't like my writing or that I'm not confident about it, it's just that I don't know where that line is where they won't judge me or be thrown off by my writing. The first time my dad read a story where a character swore, I about putzed. He did, too. I was like "Thats what the character would SAY there" and he's like "I get that but this is your writing and I've never heard you swear" and I feel like he doesn't understand that it's not ME swearing, its a CHARACTER, you know? Or pervy jokes that my characters would tell, I'd die if he saw some of those. LOL... I dunno, its weird.

FrickingKaos:
Like I said, I didn't even ask them to read, they found the links on facebook. That, and one time I gave my coworker at Taco Bell the link to Tales From The Drive Thru because he was the one who got stuck in the bathroom and I wrote about it. I gotta ask him if he read it LOL. I just feel confident enough to share I suppose. 

Sakabelle:
You are so much braver than I am, Tracy! I would be mortified if I found out any of my co-workers read my fics! That's why I never actually link to AC through my twitter, because my co-workers know about it. They know that I write since I had told them about NaNoWiMo, but they have no idea about the BSB piece of it.

Sometimes I will ask my boyfriend to beta read chapters of Running Up That Hill for me, just to help out with grammar and possible awkward sentences. But he often comments on the content and thinks some of the stuff the guys do (like Howie being obsessed with shopping IRL) is weird.

RokofAges75:
I would be mortified too.  The only people who have read anything of mine are my sister and my mom, and that was a way long time ago.  When I first started writing fanfic, I was 14, still living at home and sharing a room with my sister, so it was hard to keep it a secret from her; she knew pretty much all along, and she read some of my early stuff, but then she stopped liking BSB and just made fun of me for it.  I think my mom read a little of my very first fanfic when she found out about my site, but I was embarrassed and told her to please not read anymore, and she said she wouldn't.  To this day, I honestly don't think she does... I think she would have mentioned it by now if she did.  Also, I have a good site counter that tracks IPs and locations, so I can see if anyone from where I live visits my site LOL.

My friends don't know anything about fanfic, and I plan to keep it that way.  Honestly, even though I have this goal of someday writing a novel that could be published, I'm not sure how I'd ever have the guts to actually publish it.  I'd probably do it on the DL and not tell anyone except you guys LOL... which kind of defeats the purpose.

Carter-Orange:

--- Quote from: Pengi on December 22, 2010, 07:26:07 AM ---I would NEVER let my coworkers or my family read my current fan-fiction. I'd probably puff into smoke. I barely have the balls to let them read my essays or my original fiction snippets when they ASK to read them, lol. It's not that I don't like my writing or that I'm not confident about it, it's just that I don't know where that line is where they won't judge me or be thrown off by my writing. The first time my dad read a story where a character swore, I about putzed. He did, too. I was like "Thats what the character would SAY there" and he's like "I get that but this is your writing and I've never heard you swear" and I feel like he doesn't understand that it's not ME swearing, its a CHARACTER, you know? Or pervy jokes that my characters would tell, I'd die if he saw some of those. LOL... I dunno, its weird.

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I used to have a hard time making my characters swear as I don't really swear much in reality, only the odd "shit" here and there, lol.  Now I find it easy to type the words I don't usually say :)

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