WIP Challenge - Check In Day 10 - Saturday

[the_rck]

Poll #16674

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
1 (20.0%)

researched
1 (20.0%)

wrote
4 (80.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (40.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.20 Median: 6 Std. Dev 0.98

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (20.0%)
6		3 (60.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (20.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

Since it's on my mind at the moment-- Do people in your family know you write fic? Do you let them read it? Do any of them write fic? If yes, do they let you read it?

I don't hide the fact that I write fic from anybody in my extended family. I don't go out of my way to tell them, but I don't hide it.

My husband can read anything I write that interests him (most of it doesn't). I haven't forbidden my daughter to read my stories, but I'm relieved that she's shown no interest at all in them. She'll be twelve next week, and I don't think she's ready for darkfic (and if she is reading darkfic, I'm not convinced I want to know about it). She doesn't know my pseudonym (nobody in the family but my husband does). My father has expressed interest in reading some of my fic but never followed up on it (I'd probably show him my Narnia fic. That's innocuous). Nobody else has seemed even vaguely interested, and I'm just as happy with that.

My thirteen year old niece has started writing fic on Wattpad. I think she's writing Doctor Who. I haven't asked to see it. I don't think it's any of my business, and besides, what thirteen year old wants their aunt reading their stuff? This has made her mother more interested in knowing things about fic, and I'm the closest thing she's got to an expert. I've tried to be honest without making her panic and yank her daughter's internet access.

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[linaewen]

I"m editing today in order to post a long-overdue chapter update on one of my WIPs at Ao3. Not sure if I'll have time for anything else, but I'm hoping to do some planning for a short thing that shouldn't take long to write, but I don't know where I'm going with it yet!

My mother knew about my writing and encouraged me by letting me talk about it with her, but she only read a few things. My husband knows I write and is fine with it, but he's not interested enough in my fandoms to read anything. I think he read something once because I asked him to, and he was encouraging, but I could tell it wasn't his thing, lol! He's welcome to read anything I write, he just isn't that much of a fiction reader.

My adult son is my writing buddy in the family. He hasn't read a lot of my stuff, but he knows my penname and where to find my stuff, and he keeps up with some of my longer ongoing WIPs. He is very helpful to me when I need to bounce ideas off someone. He helps me work out plot points if I think an idea is worth pursuing and always has a spin on it that I didn't think of -- we love the same fandoms so we can talk about anything. In turn, I help him with his original fic writing, with some editing if he wants it, but mostly just as a listening ear when he's trying to do some world building or characterization or work out a plot point.

[sharpiefan]

I have a fic I think I need to research for more before I get on with writing it.

My mum knows I RP and I occasionally talk about that when she's around, but I've never shown her of my fics or anything.

There was a point when BBC Radio Four aired 'When Harry Potter Met Frodo' - all about fanfic and the writers and readers of it... My dad had been listening to it, came downstairs for dinner and asked if I knew anything about fanfic. To which I cringed and muttered 'yes' (the main focus of said programme was about slashfic, which is not really something I want my dad to know I read and write, after all). Not that I've written any slash in ages.

[krait]

Hmmm.

When I was around 15 or so, my mother decided that reading over my shoulder as I typed (some generic fantasy story - my "fandom" was elves, at that age) and making insinuations was The Right Thing To Do. My response was to get upset and defend myself somewhat incoherently (she was getting kidnapped, pls stop implying rape??) and close the document till she left. Privately, I resolved that, given her reaction to a pretty generic sample, then my mother was Mrs Not Invited To This Reading Party ever again.

This policy has served me well, considering I got into fanfic not too long after that (and, of course, got older and developed a range of "adult interests" to accompany the fic). :D

I admire mothers who take much more, uh, balanced or considered approaches to their kids' creative writing!