As long as I can remember, I loved writing and since I was in highschool which was twelve years ago, I was already developing this story that I wanted to publish as a book. Now, I'm an adult, my parents and brothers, well technically whole family, even my cousins and aunts want me to pursue a career, a REAL career and give up my writing. They tell me that there is no money in writing books and no future for me.

Although their actual words were to shelf it but it's somehow a code for them that I should completely stop it and leave it be. Currently, ai am 54% done with the story and I plan for at least two months to edit, proofread, format, and even design the cover. After two months, I plan to go on self publish it through Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and Draft2Digital while in the Philippines, which I'm situated, I already talked to our local publishing house and they are willing to help starting authors.

But since my family doesn't want me to pursue writing, this really pisses me off. I love my family, I really do but somehow it's difficult to tell them that there are other ways to make a career of. I wanted to be a writer and author since I was a kid and I'm planning to write not just one book. Like I want to write book series after book series. I've studied the self publishing route and I know this suits my style.

Right now, I'm just confused and dejected. I honestly don't know what to do. My friends already supports me but my family really is giving up on me. They see me now as a lost cause.