My mom hates my writing but I have an actual fan base, should I stop writing?

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.

Why listen to the few when you have the many

Live your life the way you want

You're writing for a niche market that isn't going to be based through a writing company. Sorry.

If something makes money, fine, but if it's that much of a niche where you need to self publish, it may be smarter to go to something that pays better, like how-to books or novels in the mystery or murder genre.

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.

You don't know what you're getting yourself into, but if you want to , you can.

At what point will you begin to disregard your mother's opinions of your actions and start making decisions based solely on your own wants and needs? Seems to me that now is just as good as any other time.

Parents can be excessively judgemental and controlling. I suggest making your decision based on what you can make work for you.

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I write for a living (novels), and erotica does sell. However, if you're good enough at the craft, you can sell pretty much any genre. I'd think long and hard about going the route of erotica, especially chasing after the money.