[Viv]

[SpaceWeavil]

I'm very late to this, I'm afraid, and also don't know if I'm even qualified to comment, as I don't have (and probably never will have) a significant other. But in terms of other people reading stuff, my uncle used to until he decided that anything not directly related to him and how ill he is wasn't worth his time. He read my first fanfiction, which was Blake's 7, and then Gerry Anderson's UFO, and used to give quite good feedback originally, even encouraged me to send a few short fics into the fanclub (back in those days it was still fanzines, no internet).

My mum has only ever read a synopsis I wrote for the BBC for their Dr Who range, which she checked over mostly for grammar and spelling. I never used to think she thought anything of my writing passion because if I mentioned it, she kind of went yeah, ok, and swiftly moved on to something else as if it was a phase that I'd grow out of. Whether I got her all wrong or whether she's learned how serious I am about it, I don't know, but she's more open to talking about it now and even talked me right through a really bad rejection email recently. In fact she stopped me from just throwing in the towel altogether and gave the best advice ever.

Eventually I might try and work up the courage to ask her to read something, if she had the time. Trouble is she would be the most honest concrit person ever and I'd be scared, lol.

[WhoaNellie]

As Mrs. Whoa Nellie (the married half of Whoa Nellie), I can't imagine writing without the support of my husband of almost twenty years (who I refer to online as Mr. Whoa Nellie). While writing the guilty little pleasures that we lovingly refer to as Star Trek bodice-rippers, my co-author and I have received a great deal of technical support over the years from our IT department/Military Advisor/Average Guy opinion poll of one. He has been there every step of the way from when we typed our first word of Trek fanfiction to our winning the 2006 Alara Rogers Award for Best Author Overall on ASC (alt.startrek.creative). He has always treated our writing as something important, just as important as anything he does. He has been a tireless support staff of one over the decade we've been writing.

[DarkElfChilde]

Well, I'm going to comment on this even though I'm not married, or in a relationship.

I think it's fine if you don't want to share any of your work with someone close to you. It's really your choice if you want to share it or not.

One thing is, one shouldn't be embarrassed or whatnot to not show your work to anyone, on the net or in real life. Your work is like your baby, and you want to show it off...no matter what it looks like. Your baby likes the attention.