I felt very uncomfortable the first time I had my father read one of my screenplays. My screenplay was about how a significant other can have a lasting effect on one's life. How years after two people have ceased all communication, they still carry remnants of every relationship. It shows that the way your significant other goes about their current relationship(with you) allows you to see through a window of their romantic past. Essentially, all the insecurities they show, all the non-normative sexual positions they know, and every expectation they have are amalgamations of their their past loves. Which to me is an incredibly beautiful and complex facet of humanity.
Anyway, the very first scene shows a man, so in love with his girlfriend it is nearly inconsiderate, performing messy cunnilingus on a girlfriend that, as a result of monotony, is mentally already out of the relationship.
At first I was scared to have my father read this story. I knew after this my father would no longer see me as his innocent little son--the youngest. In the end that was why I allowed him to read it. It displayed effectively that I was now an adult with deep personal thoughts and problems. At that moment, in his eyes, I became a man. You should never be afraid of what your writing might say about you. It is a clear view to others of the person you truly are.
Is it Normal to be ashamed/embarassed about your writing?
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I felt very uncomfortable the first time I had my father read one of my screenplays. My screenplay was about how a significant other can have a lasting effect on one's life. How years after two people have ceased all communication, they still carry remnants of every relationship. It shows that the way your significant other goes about their current relationship(with you) allows you to see through a window of their romantic past. Essentially, all the insecurities they show, all the non-normative sexual positions they know, and every expectation they have are amalgamations of their their past loves. Which to me is an incredibly beautiful and complex facet of humanity.
Anyway, the very first scene shows a man, so in love with his girlfriend it is nearly inconsiderate, performing messy cunnilingus on a girlfriend that, as a result of monotony, is mentally already out of the relationship.
At first I was scared to have my father read this story. I knew after this my father would no longer see me as his innocent little son--the youngest. In the end that was why I allowed him to read it. It displayed effectively that I was now an adult with deep personal thoughts and problems. At that moment, in his eyes, I became a man. You should never be afraid of what your writing might say about you. It is a clear view to others of the person you truly are.