My Kids Will Read This Someday

In the Guardian, Tim Parks takes a humourous and discomfiting look at being read by one's children:

It was of [Europa] that some reviewer remarked that "Parks's nearest and dearest must tremble whenever another novel comes out". But actually the person who gets a little nervous is me. "Why ever would I teach at the university if not to have a constant supply of fit young women to shag?" my son has just read in the first chapter of this novel. His father, of course, teaches at a university, where, notoriously, 90% of the students studying languages are young women.

Difficult enough to write fiction, where you can at least protest that the lecherous character is certainly not autobiographical. But what if you're writing memoir? Maria Dhavana Headley has some advice for you at the PowellsBooks.blog:

Your grandma is going to read your book. Including the part where you lose your virginity on her front lawn at age 15, while in the process of trying to get your first kiss.

Now you know why I write fiction. Hi Grandma!