[ SECRET POST #3805 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Fear of failure, of getting dragged because someone might think my work was cheesy, that never helped me improve.

Writing, and more writing, that's what got my skills up.

You sound like the kind of person who kicks puppies for 'training'. "The only way they'll learn," or some such bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. If anything, fear of public opinion has made me stop writing entirely for years on end before. It's also a big reason why I have no interest in going pro. What is an easily surmountable task for one person can be practically impossible for another.

I love writing. Have ever since I could pick up a pencil. It's that passion for the art that keeps me coming back to writing even if it took me a good, long while.

My writing isn't popular, but the few people who like it really, REALLY like it, so I'm going to keep sharing (no, I don't write self-inserts anymore, just the occasional OC when no canon character will fill the necessary role). But it took the better part of my forty-some-odd years on earth to get there.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. And that same principle spans across multiple art forms for me. The realization of "wow my writing is kinda shit" is what made me stop writing entirely for a solid decade. Feeling that my drawing wasn't very good was what made me feel like I should probably just not bother.

On the other hand, realizing that I was actually starting to get pretty good at drawing, and more recently that my writing was in fact half-decent, is what made me feel like I COULD improve, and it made me want to put in the needed practice. If anything has most held me back in life in general it's this idea that if I feel like I'm good at something, that will somehow make me worse at it. Because the reality is the exact opposite.

None of which is to say that constructive criticism should be avoided, but that itself is a bit of an artform that requires both honesty and tact. Yes, those two things can coexist.