from salon.com

[staleyg]

clearly self-promotion by the author, but interesting nonetheless...

The author's daughter
Most parents try to shield their children from adult thoughts and desires. But for children of novelists, whose desires are available for public viewing, there's no protection.

Comments

[susansbeeswax]

Ooh, who was it? Someone over at mamaphonic was writing about this as well on the old boards... interesting topic...

[mmstarshine]

Mmmm.

As a child of not ONE, but TWO writers, I get this.

As a young teen, about Kayla's age. I forbid my parents from using my real name in any of their writing, or writing anything about me that they did not actualy witness. Afterall, things that I told them where MY experiences, NOT theirs and off limits. I also requred that anything they wrote that included me with identifying details be OK'd by me before being sent to an editor. I had this all typed up in a nice contract form...

Maybe I should track that down and make a copy for J and S when they are older. ;-)

[staleyg]

i didn't know your parents were writers!

[mmstarshine]

I KNOW! you could never tell from my attrocious spelling and grammer huh? I think I do it out of definace. My dad was also a highschool english teacher.

[staleyg]

no i didn't mean it like that!!

you're funny :)