Another Book Question

[kriadydragon]

I have an original story idea at the top of my writing list, but a part of me is hesitant because it features a child (around eleven years old) befriending a male adult who's around thirty, and I'm a little worried that some might perceive that as creepy.

Has anyone read stories about a little kid befriending an adult? And I don't mean the usual little kid and his/her elderly mentor/teacher/whatever. I mean male adults between the age of twenty-five and thirty-five.

For the record, what I have in mind I feel will work but I think it will help knowing that other authors have ventured into such territory and made it work as well. In other words, I need something that will shut my paranoia up.

Comments

[obsessed1o1.livejournal.com]

I think you have to give the readers credit too and assume that they will read it as friendship. The way i got around it in my story was to have the kid pursuing the adult rather than the other way around and kept their friendship out in the open. Eg, I felt uncomfortable writing the man and the boy alone in his house until i had established that it was purely friendship.

Sad times when you can't just sit down and write and you have to worry about peoples warped perceptions. Oh well, it's a challenge but a fun one.

Good luck with the writing! ((hugs)) And i'm glad this has given you confidence to write it! I'm sure it will, as always, be excellent :o)