It takes a lot of guts to let others read your story and is definitely a large step towards publishing. I have a girlfriend locally who reads my stories and helps with the editing process, she reads a lot of fantasy (which is funny, because I don’t, yet I write it!), but her help has been invaluable. The benefit of writing fiction is that you get to create your own world, have things happen the way you want them to happen, mind you the whole story process is about creating your own reality.
Does that mean that writers can’t stand their own world and want to create a different world to live in?
My world is pretty cool, I have a wonderful husband that I love with all my heart, a beautiful son who is just so full on, two lovely step sons and a little house a small country village. I have a flourishing garden, a creative streak that sometimes takes shape as beading creations and sometimes as writing. I love who I am right now, a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, I am happy with my own body, my own skin. Maybe writing has allowed me to reach this point, to write out my agressive, angry, nasty, evil feelings and making them owned by someone else. I think that is why I write, to express myself emotionally so that I can explain why I am like I am, and I like that.
So, letting the world see my writing, well I haven’t done that yet, my Mum is the only one who has access to this site, maybe one day I will allow others to look at it too, but at this stage, it is a personal thing, a place where I can safely let off steam without it coming back to bite me in the arse!