Does your family joke about how much money your book is going to make them?

[Naruzeldamaster]

I'm not particularly annoyed by it, but I wish they wouldn't do it until the dang thing was at least published.
My family frequently jokes about 'their cut' and frankly that doesn't sit right with me. I'm already generous enough with them as is.

Unless my book blows up like Harry Potter or Twilight did, then maybe? But I don't see that happening with my first book. Maybe a third or fourth book, if I get my senses right and even then I don't expect it to blow up quite like that. (Doesn't mean it can't happen, but I'm not expecting it to)

 

[pmmg]

Remind them of the story of Henny Penny.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Remind them of the story of Henny Penny.

I don't know that one lol
I do know the one about the duck that didn't want to help make bread.
Same concept though.

 

[pmmg]

I had them confused. It was the Little Red Hen.... Its not a duck?

Henny Penny thinks the sky is falling. It was turned into Chicken Little.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I had them confused. It was the Little Red Hen.... Its not a duck?

Henny Penny thinks the sky is falling. It was turned into Chicken Little.

Ye I only heard the chicken little version (And yes that was before the movie came out. which was honestly goated TBH) Some other stories like that that were 'sanitized' are like Heinsel and Grettle (And similar fairy tales)

The children's story I'm talking about in my previous post is a different story, about a family of ducks baking bread, there's this one lazy duck (who kid me thought was kind of an ass for a childrens book character) who doesn't want to help with any of the steps of baking the bread. At the end of the story he's STUNNED that he didn't get to eat any of the bread. Mama Duck tells him 'maybe next time you would consider helping' (also a bit of an ass way to do it even if the actual moral of the story is correct, kid me still thought the lazy duck and mamma were obnoxious lol) I believe both the mama and the lazy duck are portrayed in the artwork as somewhat smug, if I remember correctly.

While I didn't use that language as a kid, I was perceptive enough to go 'wow, ok, for a childrens book though?' lol

Either way, both stories work on a similar concept. Though the one in my post is more about actually helping making the book.

 

[Meema]

Ye I only heard the chicken little version (And yes that was before the movie came out. which was honestly goated TBH) Some other stories like that that were 'sanitized' are like Heinsel and Grettle (And similar fairy tales)

The children's story I'm talking about in my previous post is a different story, about a family of ducks baking bread, there's this one lazy duck (who kid me thought was kind of an ass for a childrens book character) who doesn't want to help with any of the steps of baking the bread. At the end of the story he's STUNNED that he didn't get to eat any of the bread. Mama Duck tells him 'maybe next time you would consider helping' (also a bit of an ass way to do it even if the actual moral of the story is correct, kid me still thought the lazy duck and mamma were obnoxious lol) I believe both the mama and the lazy duck are portrayed in the artwork as somewhat smug, if I remember correctly.

While I didn't use that language as a kid, I was perceptive enough to go 'wow, ok, for a childrens book though?' lol

Either way, both stories work on a similar concept. Though the one in my post is more about actually helping making the book.

When was the book written and published? Kids' stories used to be a lot harsher.

 

[pmmg]

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Not I, said the Cat.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

And also, no, i don't get that tease all that often. In part because I'm intimidating, and in part because my mom would have cut someone, had they the temerity to go after the woman who taught me how to writer.

 

[pmmg]

Yes, you, said the dragon.