family and writing Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/family-and-writing/ Sun, 23 Mar 2014 14:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Family Involvement in writing; Reluctant, Conscripted or Volunteered? http://booksbywomen.org/writing-family-trade/ http://booksbywomen.org/writing-family-trade/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:00:35 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11032 ‘Is writing, your family trade?’ was a recent question at a literary festival. I hadn’t thought of authorship that way before,  the answer probably  is ‘yes.’ My family has done the ‘word’ apprenticeship voluntarily, reluctantly or been conscripted. The family of a writer can’t help involvement in books, either reading them, inspiring or being captured […]

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