On: Advice for Aspiring Writers

[brooklyn_ashey]

As to your #8: Murakami and Nabokov do/did well with their wives as "most important reader/editor" And before Michael Pietsch came on the scene (and after!) David Foster Wallace gave his drafts to his sister and Mom, which seemed to work well for him.

[cryoshon → brooklyn_ashey]

if you have critical thinkers in the family, sure, it will work great. most people don't.