What does your family think of your hubbing?
I do make some money online on a regular basis but not enough to make a living off it. However, I do nothing else to make money too. I have somehow made my family/relatives to believe that I will either start making money of it and if I can't I can do a lot of other things.
I'm writing a book on the paranormal. Page by page and posting them on Hp. Yet, my older kids think I am doing nothing -- just playing on the computer! On Hub pages.
When is writing not work?! Especially when you are writing hundreds of pages and posting them!
Family and friends needs to know if you are writing you are working! Lol. Everyone with me on that one?
I was introduced by my bro here. He is a good writer and now after more then a year here I have learned the trades and tricks here. It feels good and even bro feel that I have picked up well. Btw he is my younger bro
Hmmm.
I have one son (grown) who writes (degree in fine arts, works in publishing - the whole bit). He has considered trying writing a few Hubs, I think, but I'm not sure if he has or not. For all I know, he could have hundreds of Hubs up and not be saying anything about it. The same with my daughter (another writer-type). They like to keep a lot of their "personal doings" private, for one reason or another.
One son isn't one to write much.
Their father would (as he puts it) "rather kill himself than write".
My sister isn't far behind in that thinking. My brother's someone who could be a Hubber and I'd never know it. (It's that "keeping private" thing again.
) I've mostly lost touch with people like cousins and former in-laws. It was only recently that I posted links to my stuff on Geni. Who knows - maybe some long lost cousin read something. None of my friends writes. So, as you can see, this writing thing is pretty much my own "private thing". The ones in my day-to-day life know I pick up a part-time income from it, so I guess they think it's a reasonably worthwhile endeavor.- EmpressFelicityposted 14 years ago
0 I know, I know, I know.
I have encouraged my wife and my daughters to get involved. They say they have no time.
My wife doesn't even even read most of what I write - she reads the little blurbs I post to Facebook and will comment if she likes one of the little cartoons I sometimes put with them, but seldom clicks in :-)
Too busy, she says, and if it's important, I should just tell her about it.
My daughters read more and so does a cousin, but the thing I find odd us that none if them will leave a comment at the post - they always go back to Facebook!
I have had people comment back to Tweeter. I find that really, really odd, but there it is.
As to the money thing, I already earn significant money at my main site, so they all understand that I am doing worthwhile work, but of course they don't understand how it all works. A "writer" should write a book or a magazine article and get paid. I've been paid by magazines, but overall I have made much more through the Internet, but it's different to them. They don't see it the same way.
I'm going to keep harping at them
)Mine does too. He likes the extra money coming in. What's not to like about that, you know? So he encourages me to write. Gotta love that.
My husband appreciates the extra income and encourages me to write more. I have him check over some of my health related hubs for accuracy before publishing, but other than that he doesn't usually read them. I tried to get him to join, but he only ever wrote one hub himself and I edited it and formatted it and added in pictures and other capsules. Nowadays I just use his account to write about one of my own niches.
I convinced my brother to sign up too, but he hasn't written anything, and one of my friends wrote a great hub about Prince Edward Island that did pretty well in HubNuggets that week, but she has been too busy with school and work to write more.
My husband has always been very supportive of it, but then I was living as a single stay-at-home mom thanks to my writing income when he met me. Obviously I'd already proven that I could, and continue, to make a full-time income off of my various writing endeavors. When my husband first moved here he did do a little bit of writing as well, though not on Hubpages, until he found an outside job, and so he has a very real appreciation for how difficult it can be since he was never able to match my productivity and rankings. However, since his knowledge base is very much in demand he patiently allows me to pick his brain and write articles based on his ideas, but my words.
That said, my extended family and family friends kept asking me for almost a year after my divorce from my first husband when I was going to get a "real job." Even though I was supporting myself and my son completely on my own, no one could accept that not only did I already have a real job, it pays better than about any outside job I could get in this area. Now many of those same people think my husband is supporting me and that I have no other concerns in life than my kids and home (which is enough, but not all that's on my plate!) to the extent that many have decided that I'm deliberately cutting them out of my life because I'm not making time for them. These are mostly other stay-at-home moms who have the kids and the house, but not the additional full-time job to deal with. I get the feeling even my mom thought I was pulling support from somewhere when I was single, because how else would I have been able to stay at home?
It's very frustrating sometimes because people wouldn't get mad if I didn't answer the phone if I were working at Wal-Mart, but they think I'm blowing them off because I shut the phone off during my work day at home. For some reason it just never gets through that even though I'm at home, I'm NOT really at home because I'm at work. It makes perfect sense. That said, I wouldn't change a single thing, and at least the most important and influential person in my life fully supports it and loves to brag that he's married to a writer.- Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago0
I haven't told my entire family. I've told only one person. And, her response was - do what you want. I thought it was the best response I could get.
To tell you the truth, I would love to spend more time here writing hubs, but what with my real life job, my studies (psychology degree) and my family, I can never find enough time to hub!
So far, my husband is only happy for me.... though I have to admit, he thinks the forums are a real waste of time - something I cannot understand, since he'll spend the same amount of time watching sports on t.v. which i don't, so how is that any different?!
Most of my family doesn't get it. If I tell them something that I'm writing about or mention a hub it like this
with crickets chirping in the background. I do have one support my sister, she's composed a hub for me once. I think my situation is a little unique, in that my husband, me, and our three kids are ALL hubbers now, lol...
My husband Tom, was first, then when he started writing a sci-fi story in chapters, our oldest son, Dustin, signed up so he could comment. Then he started messing around, writing some "stories of his life" type hubs.
I joined about 13 months ago now, and love it. Our youngest son, Larkin, joined but has only written two hubs so far, and our daughter Leia joined up, mostly so she could comment on our hubs, I believe, 'cause she's pretty busy with her little ones to write herself yet.
Soooo, in our family, you can hear "You should do a hub on that" on a daily basis, haha...
Our extended family thinks it's kind of neat, though, and are very supportive.
TammyIf you mean family as in Ma, Pa etc / with the exception of my sister they just don't think.
My husband and my three children love what I do but it bores them. I talk about stats too muchI posted already in this thread about how my being online so much is causing problems in our relationship. He's just after coming in and telling me I should write a book instead of writing on hubpages! Seems he'd been speaking to a Spanish-speaking English person in the village who always read my blog and thinks I'm a great writer and told him so! Now he wants me to spend even more time at the computer! Huh?
I don't think I could write a book although I'd like to. Article writing suits me fine- The stallionposted 14 years ago0
Well my parents like it and my brother actually wants to join it now!
A former single mom, my sons are tickled their mom is a internet 'star'
and recent b/f ..thinks I'm awesome, parents and siblings are supportive but a tad skeptical same time. Can't win everybody I guess, - Lisa Wardposted 14 years ago0
Not sure my hubby knows about hubpages, although he is very supportive of 'my hobby', (as he likes to call my writing). I started with a correspondence course which aimed to get you published, and I did get one article published in Dogs Monthly!!! I then discovered hubpages. I am really enjoying it, but need to try to figure out about generating traffic etc, as I have only made £1.41, which is laughable really
On a more positive note, I have read some fantastic articles and I hope one day to be able to tell my hubby that I have generated a small income from my writing. - naiza1986posted 14 years ago0
- Lisa Wardposted 14 years ago0
Hi Mighty Mom, at least your sister in law is talking to you, mine isn't, not sure why though? I would love to write about it, but I dare not. Not that I think she would find the hub (the in laws don't know about it), but I don't want to risk it. I guess it's not worth the grief. She is my hubby's little sister after all! Boo!!
well, my soon to be ex didn't like it - but then he never liked anything that made me happy - my kids and my mother in law - they get a kick out of it and are great to go away and let me have my quiet writing time - I'm fortuante there - only thing is - I haven't taken advantage of it as of yet - but I plan on it
They actually encourage me to write so I really am lucky - BRIAN SLATERposted 14 years ago0
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