Comments on: Do your friends know you write?

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:04:05 +0000

In reply to candilanded. I loved your response! Can't wait to read your writing. Sounds like you know writing is your calling.Sent from my iPhone

By: candilanded

candilanded — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:07:53 +0000

I have a close knit of girlfriends that know I write but only a few have actually read my attempts at novels. I need their support and prayers. I struggled accepting my craft as something useful in society. They helped me to say "yes." I have a passion for writing and they know that. I have a dear friend who shares the same passion. She gets me.

I had one friend tell me how amazed she was that I could write a story; that she couldn't begin to think of how to start one. I immediately thought that was odd. Doesn't everybody know how? Writing is how I communicate with my God and my world around me. For me, "To write is to breathe."

By: aspiring author Toya D.

aspiring author Toya D. — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:12:58 +0000

I myself have been writing since i was in jr high. Writing is my escape, my hatch. People know me as the creative one or the talented vocalist, but im not sure they know just how deep my passion for written word goes.
I’ve been working on my freshman novel for almost a year now and not many people in my circle know about it. Im forever on blogging site’s and social media raving about my creation but i have trouble divulging this info to those closest to me. Could it be the fact that my writing subject matter is somewhat explicit and dark? Could it be that im afraid of not succeding and don’t want to look at disappointed faces? I don’t know.

By: Synithia

Synithia — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:42:49 +0000

I didn’t start telling people until I finished my first novel and began looking into publishing. Many were surprised and some remembered that I’ve written since high school. Everyone has been supportive. I was more nervous about saying I write romance than saying i’m a writer. No one has had a problem with my genre either.

Other good point is having people ask about my book motivates me to keep trying.

By: @spiritualtramp

@spiritualtramp — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:46:33 +0000

Since I've only started to consider myself a "writer" in the last year or so I imagine that there are a few people that still don't know, but I share it with everyone I think to. Since 99% of my stuff is self published people look at me a little weird when I let that nugget drop.