I try as hard as possible to be original about these posts, but I guess most of us have a lot of the same insecurities.
However, I have discovered an insecurity that is a little more niche in the last few weeks. I started on my teacher training course a few weeks ago and one of the major concerns I have about teaching is getting the young people to respect me. I am blessed/cursed with a young face. At 21 I could pass for 16. Yet I am intending to go and try to impart knowledge onto people that I don't look any older than.
This raises a similar concerns around my writing. If I was ever lucky enough to get a work published would this change my students perspective of me? Would I lose whatever authority I held over them because of what I'd written (perhaps swearing, YA level romance etc)? Would my writing style become changed by my being conscious that young people I work with every day might read it?
A solution would be, I guess, to post under a pseudonym but I don't know if I'd feel comfortable about that.
This is probably a long way off from being something I seriously need to consider, but it's another niggling thing in the back of my mind.
Do you ever worry about loss of respect when writing? It may not be from a teacher point of view but maybe you worry what friends, family or colleges might think.
Sarah x
