Writer's dilemma

Here is what is difficult, for both writers and writers friends/family: people in our lives become characters, things become props, places become settings, real words exchanged become dialogue; all of that becomes story or poem. And ultimately, even when it is not, our friends/family sometimes believe the writing is about them or they wish it were about them. But the writing stands alone once it is done, no longer possessed by the writer or anyone else. What matter, ultimately, who wrote the collection of plays and sonnets we attribute to Shakespeare - it is the work that fascinates, resonates, entertains, touches, stimulates, just as much as if it were a living thing. That's why it is referred to a "creating" a story and/or poem. It becomes. Often it becomes something other than what the writer believed they had intended in the first place. Thus the writer's ego is no more or less than the writers' friends/family members when it comes to the actual work.

I have written on this topic before, but the cost of writing and publishing your work will always be that some will misunderstand.