Writing Prompt #110: Family Matters

Will your family disown you if you write about them? What's sayable (and forgivable) when writing about family?

Hi Friends,

The people who are usually closest to us—for better or for worse—are our family, so when we sit down to write, they usually come up along sooner or later (usually sooner) to occupy our imaginations and our pages. Do we have a right to include them in our stories? Will they disown us for doing so? The answers are yes and maybe.

For the most pa…