Are you worried about how your family members might react if you include them in your stories? 

(YOU ANSWERED NO—SCROLL TO READ MORE.)

 

☑️ …YOU ANSWERED NO

“We do not live in a vacuum, and when we write our stories, we cannot leave out all mention of others. But how fair is it to put people into our books—names, warts, and all—just because they happened to bump up against our life?” Alison Bowen has written. 

If you aren’t thinking about this, perhaps you should be. Not that I want the notion to become an impediment to your writing (!), but I do want you to consider the ramifications...

If you'd like to explore, here's an interesting article that hits on a variety of viewpoints.

>> Now, go ahead: Write, and write freely: You own your story, and you are writing from your perspective. You can always go back and edit later ❤️️❤️️❤️️