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I have some whining to do.

1. I tried to do the self-published kindle erotica thing but I guess I got squicked by it? I put up a couple of titles a couple years ago and have had lots of ideas for more, and they're so easy relatively easy to write (and I love designing covers), but I don't know. Something intimidated me or I was more old-fashioned than I thought and I haven't been able to do anymore. Lately I've been trying to get back into it but then I'm not sure if I should make a new pseudonym or revive the one I already started.

2. All the experts agree: if you want to make it as a pro you should join a writing group. But the only local group really is the state writing society and I feel like all they do is take my money. I went to an event of theirs last year and it was just an unfriendly environment. Like you walk into the room and you can feel the ego. There are online communities that serve the same purpose as a writing group but I end up joining them and then deleting their constant emails.

3. I haven't really written a complete story since I graduated my writing program over a year ago. I've made a few attempts at revising the stories I wrote for that program but I look at them and just see utter crap. I do this when I try to revise anything, to be honest. I am never going to make it in the career that I somehow decided was my one true passion that I had to do.

4. Writing isn't fun anymore.

5. And what hurts the most is that everyone around me is so supportive that if I try to talk about any of this they just tell me "But you're a great writer! Look at all the crap that's been published, you're a better writer than that so you can do it!" and calling me their ***WRITER*** friend. I don't want to be all angsty and "They don't understaaaaaaand!" (god I hate writers like this, I hate most other writers tbh, another reason I have trouble joining groups) but they really don't seem to get it and I don't know how I can just give up with all those people behind me. I don't think I could give up even without them. I tried for a while and I couldn't stop thinking about writing. So tl;dr I can't write and I can't not write.

I can't be the only one, right?

Unless your previous erotica did really badly, it's probably better to stick with an established pseudonym. Because if your new erotica sells well, the old stuff gets a boost.

Don't join writer's groups that require money. Hell, don't join one at all if you don't feel it's working for you. General wisdom about anything are just ideas, you're supposed to figure out what works for you and what doesn't, not follow it blindly.

Write something for fun, that's just for you. Doesn't matter what it is, just do whatever it takes to rediscover the fun side of writing.

As someone who was in a funk for three years because of the bad aftertaste from one writing group, and as someone who dislikes other writers too (we'd probably mutually dislike one another, yay!), I totally know what you mean. I went a slightly different route in that I wrote tailored erotica (give me fetishes and I'll give you words, that sort of stuff) but the fetishes eventually became too much for me so I cut back on that.

I think, at the end of the day, there's no tried and true method for becoming a Real Writer and the most important thing is putting words on paper. I hope you snap out of your funk! For me, nothing major happened, I literally just woke up one day itching to write. It was utter crap, like everything, but apparently good enough to put food on the table.

I do this when I try to revise anything, to be honest. I am never going to make it in the career that I somehow decided was my one true passion that I had to do.
This, +1000
I have never ever reread a work of my own and liked it. And this is tragic because I love the tropes I use and often reuse them so you think I'd get better or write stuff that has more personal reread value! Well, other people clearly reread my works and Emily Dickinson wanted her poems burnt so eye of the beholder and whatnot.

Also, can't emphasize enough how un-glamorous the career route is for most everyone I know. I feel I succeeded in spite and not because! :P

This actually made me feel better. Thanks, anon.

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