The specific humiliation of sharing your writing with someone and then watching them read it in front of you in real time. they pause. why did they pause. that was a bad pause. now they're nodding but what does the nod mean. now they look up and say "wow" and you need to know IMMEDIATELY what kind of wow that was. there are at least six different wows and only one of them is good and you have aged fourteen years waiting to find out which one.
Honestly less embarrassing to read it aloud to them. I have read my smut to friends because I'd rather they understand the tone, and inflection and oops there's a typo lemme just read what that was supposed to be then sit there and watch them silently read it.












