My mom hates my writing but I have an actual fan base, should I stop writing?
So I just turned 18 and I saw this job offer and they're paying pretty well but its basically writing for porn. I was going to ask my mom can I work at a writing company that involves porn because my mom hates my writing, says my writing is trash ( I've won awards for writing, and got a lot of attention off my writing and my dad likes it but my mom always says its trash, poorly written and she only wanted me to write for kids shows and I can't have cursing, violence, or anything too sexual in them but I actually have a fan base of my writing and this job could probably help me a lot, Should I get the job or reject the offer because my mom doesn't like it?
Sara H2018-01-06T05:38:21Z
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Welcome to the world of adulthood! Where you make your own decisions, and the decisions you make effect the rest of your life!
Firstly, you can feel some relief knowing that you don't have to ask your mom for permission to accept a job offer. It's your time, effort, and money.
Just remember that IF you were to take this job, you might as well kiss anything to do with children's literature goodbye.
Aside from that, you need to weigh your options. If you do what your mom wants, you would be putting yourself in a very small genre and be limiting yourself and your potential.
If I were to do what my mother wanted me to do, I wouldn't have:
a) Gotten a degree in an area that actually interest me b) Married my husband c) Bought a house in the country d) Gotten cats e) Gotten a dog
etc. etc.
All things that make me very, very happy.
I think the issue here is more if you want to write for porn? Is it something you're comfortable with, especially seeing how young you are. If you're cool with it, then well... stand your ground.
I respect that you tell your mother everything and show her everything, but maybe you should consider if this is really necessary, since she doesn't seem supportive of what you do?
"got a lot of attention off my writing" Whatever you decide about writing porn - and it is your decision what you do with your abilities, not your mother's wish, that counts - write the correct word. The word you should have written is "from", not "off".
My personal feeling is that writing porn is a misuse of the writer's ability and the reader's time, as well as corrupting to their souls, but that's me. I do like a bit of spice in romantic fiction. Erotica and porn are sellable markets. I also wonder if your past work was judged on its explicit descriptions of sex.
Don't stop writing, but think about what you want to write.