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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one should ever ask someone to read their unpublished novel - or even published novel - if the other person doesn't want to read it. Your husband is really showing poor form demanding you do it.

Is he really going to feel better if you read it and tell him it's boring?! And at this point, he knows you're not interested - does he need you lying to say you think it's great?

Maybe you can ask him to read you his favorite parts aloud - and also suggest he join a writing group where people share and critique each other's work.

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As an author of fiction in a loving relationship with a man who only reads serious history, economic or political books. He reads anything I ask him to read. He spends hours as needed discussing plot issues, brainstorming ideas. Whatever I need he is there to help. Similarly, I discuss and read about any topic he is interested in. We used to take long walks and he would talk through business issues. I know more about business than most who have never taken a business class.

It is threads and posts like this that make me understand why there are so many terrible marriages. [/quote]

I am the PP and I have a good marriage. In part because we know when to give each other some space and grace.

That said my husband did used to brainstorm with me on fiction - but then in my second book, the stuff my husband suggested was what readers hated the most. He's no longer someone I bounce fiction ideas off of. It's just not his thing! That's why I say: if it's not OP's thing, her husband should find another beta reader. OP can support her husband by encouraging him, giving him the time and space to sit and write, talking to him when he wants it. But if she's just not interested in what he's writing - because he's a bad writer or she's a bad reader, or whatever - then she should not be the one reading his drafts.[/quote]

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