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robindrake93 · 5 months

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Before he died, my grandpa was telling people that I was a ghost writer.

He knew that I wrote constantly, watched me do it for decades, and he knew that I was somehow making money online with my writing.

What I was actually doing most of the time was writing fan fiction; something he did not know existed and since most of my fics are explicit, I didn't think he'd want to know. (although considering most of the books he read were steamy historical romances, he might not have cared too much)

I had also set up a patreon for original fiction, which I think I explained poorly when telling him about. "People pay me money to read what I write per chapter" was probably how I explained it. Which is accurate but that's not a model of reading that he's familiar with.

Given the circumstances and his limited knowledge, I'd say his guess was pretty good.

#personal #mine #I don't normally make posts about my family #but I've been thinking about my grandpa a lot lately #and he told his side of the family that i was a ghost writer #i couldn't figure out why he would think that but it came to me suddenly #my grandpa loved romance books and I didn't realize it until after he died and i googled the authors #i inherited his romance novel collection #i think he went with historical romances because the covers werent overtly sexy #he was hiding that part of himself and i know this because of how my grandma reacted when i told her that all of his books were romances #it was negatively btw #he was secretly a romantic all along #he planted roses in our yard even though my grandma didn't want them #because he liked roses #my grandma dug them out after he died but they grew back in #truly a sign from beyond the grave that his roses were to stay #anyway I'm not sad he's dead but I do wonder about the person he would have been if he didn't feel like he had to hide

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