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Can You Give Away Too Much of Yourself to Your Readers?
It’s a conundrum
At some point in time, I think ALL readers wonder this?
Who is reading your pieces and how do they “relate” to them, knowing YOU are the writer?
It can be anxiety causing, allowing people you know to read your work. Especially, if the readers KNOW you well, and know your thought process. Even the first time I send my work to the clients I write for, I get a prickle up the back of my neck, waiting for them to respond. I pace around the house, waiting for my email notification that they have, indeed read it. Will they KNOW what kind of mood I am in, based on what I have written? Will they see that you are having a particularly vulnerable moment as you write, causing provocation and judgement? Will they learn something about you that they can use against you? Will they wonder where these ideas came from, and ask you about it? *gasp* These are the thoughts that pass through my tumbling, word jumbled brain.
So, HOW MUCH OF “YOU” do you put in your writing?
The book I am working on currently, is a life story for a man who grew up in an alcoholic, large, abusive family. Much of what he shares with me, and requests as part of the story, I can relate to. He knows that I come from a similar background, and I always wonder at the…
