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Post by Robin on Jan 9, 2006 17:38:05 GMT -8
Not just strangers online, I'm talking about friends and family. I know I get embarassed when people I know walk into the room when I'm trying to write, and they just say "what are you writing" and I just say "uh...nothing," because if they saw what I write, they'd look at me funny. One of my stories is particularly...adult? I don't want to say pornographic, but it's pretty viewer-discretion-advised.
So, now that I've cliched myself, does anybody else feel this way?
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Post by ScarletMornings on Jan 9, 2006 22:12:56 GMT -8
yeah, whenever i'm on this site, i just get nervous cuz it is hard to share my poems with my family. i used to a lot, but then my writing style COMPLETELY changed, and now it's all a lot darker and i know my parents would think i was all depressed, and i'm really not at all, so i only show them to like one or two other people and then on here.
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Post by Ramona on Jan 10, 2006 9:08:38 GMT -8
Yeah, I don't really like my family members to read my work, but sometimes when I come across something I want to share (for whatever reason) I'll let my little brother read it and sometimes when I have one ai REALLY want to share, I let everyone in my family read it. I have pretty much no problem with sharing with strangers on the InterNet, though, and I've always pondered the human tendency to think that there's safety behind anonymity. I also send some of my poems to my friend Gwynne, and she sends me hers.
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Post by darktears on Jan 10, 2006 19:00:08 GMT -8
I don't mind letting strangers read my writing on the internet but I don't like it when my parents read it or anything. I'm not sure why, I just think that if they read it they'll think I dunno..like I guess I think I write stuff that is older then I am. So I don't know, I just don't like it when my parents read it, but I can still give it to my teacher to read, which is weird...I don't know...lol
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Post by muzikishappiness on Jan 11, 2006 14:15:01 GMT -8
I dont mind sharing here, because no one really knows me, but in real life I've only shared maybe 2-3 songs and 1 chapter from a story I'd written, and only with 3 different people total.
I get very embarassed. Its odd that this thread was started, -I know you all dont care, but I figured I'd share- because just today I handed a song I had written to my friend because I felt that she could see it, but when she had finished reading it, another of our friends came around, stole it, -and a note I'd written to her- and took off running for the boys bathroom (and I am female). I'm so upset about that. I'll have to kick his ass tomorrow.
I can share it with people I'm close to (friends), but not my family or other adults, since they already seem to think I'm disturbed or something...whatever.
I'm pretty much in love with psuedonyms -pen names. :-)
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Post by Robin on Jan 11, 2006 16:49:32 GMT -8
Pen names do help.
I've been through a ton of them. When I was ten, it was Diamond Drake. Kind of embarassing. But I like the one I have now. Robin Siskin.
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Post by Ramona on Jan 11, 2006 18:00:03 GMT -8
Yeah. I remember you saying something that included that name in it back when you were Saralioness.
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Post by Robin on Jan 11, 2006 18:11:28 GMT -8
I like my new persona better.
And I like my new poetry better. I like to think that I've improved a great deal.
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Post by Ramona on Jan 12, 2006 8:51:30 GMT -8
Yeah, I went back and found some of your older stuff yesterday. You have improved, but I think you had some good work then, too.
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Post by cry,crayola. on Jan 12, 2006 16:21:14 GMT -8
i think its easier to share with strangers, cause i never see them, so if they thought it was bad, i don't have to know that everytime that i saw them, they'd be thinking "oh, that's the chick who can't write worth a flip" cause i can't. ahhhhh well. we can't all win, eh?
things change when my family or friends read my stuff. it's really awkward for me. *shudders* i don't even like to think about it. it's all so...... personal.
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Post by Robin on Jan 13, 2006 17:58:02 GMT -8
Personal about sums it up. I'm not scared to be intimate and personal with people, but I guess some people could take one's writing the wrong way.
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Post by Pseudomuse on Jan 17, 2006 5:34:30 GMT -8
I absolutely hate sharing with my family, because if its not something they understand they just stare at you and are quiet for a while. Well, yeah, thats me. I don't mind sharing with friends, because most of them are writers or artists themselves. Wait Robin was Sara...I remember you, you always had a unique flair, still do, I have you agree with Ramona, you have improved! YAY! okay off of that. I adore pseudonyms. You can shrink me all you like on this. But I love getting feedback on my writing from any source. I just like being able to hide behind a name. So they don't know who exactly I am. My current pseudonym, the one it will probably stay forever is Vienne Estelle Porter, of Vienne E Porter, of V E Porter....and such.
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Post by Robin on Jan 18, 2006 15:52:43 GMT -8
My friends are worthless to share writing with. They're all unartistic little munchkins, or pseudo-intellectuals who think everything with a fancy word in it is good. XP
I like your pseudonym. Vienne Estelle Porter. Verrry fancy. It sounds Italian/French.
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Post by cry,crayola. on Jan 21, 2006 10:43:26 GMT -8
meh. i don't really share my poetry with my friends really, now that i think of it........ except sara (scarletmornings) but that doesn't count cause she just sees it on the site.
man, oh, man.
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Post by dominicmonaghan on Apr 22, 2006 17:24:57 GMT -8
I SOOO know what you are talking about!!! I hate it and it sometime's feels like someone's reading over my shoulder! I feel more comfortable sharing with people I don't know over the internet, but always get nervous when someone comments on my work... I'm know I'm not the best writer, but I write because I enjoy it, so I always fear negative criticism.
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