Over the weekend I shared a piece of writing with my aunt for feedback, since I had talked about the piece with her in the past and I wanted to share my work with her. A few hours after pasting the file into an email and sending it my aunt’s way, I received a follow-up email from her filled with praise and encouragement. Sharing my writing with others is hard for me to do, especially since I often write about feelings and events I am trying to process, so receiving all that love and support from my aunt meant the world to me. It got me thinking about authors who have published daring or personal pieces of their own, and whether or not they get nervous sharing their work. Did they have close friends and family to share their work with too? If so it is so strange to think about. I feel like whenever I pick up a book in the back of my mind I assume that the author just sent it straight to their publisher without a second thought, but there must have been other people in their lives that they shared their story with even before that, such as close friends and family. It just goes to show how much work and support goes into writing that we don’t even think about most of the time.
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