@unforth-ninawaters wait…. YOU feel like a hack? No. No freaking way! You’re one of the best writers in the whole fandom!
I mean, it kinda makes me feel better to know I’m not alone in this but you are DEFINITELY not a hack.(*hugs*)
Dude. Duuuuude. I constantly feel like a hack, and I can’t even read the words “one of the best writers in the whole fandom” without scoffing cause, what, me? nuh uh absolutely no way.
But that’s kinda the point – I know objectively I’m a decent writer, and a fairly popular one I think. Our brains are fucking liars. Don’t worry about your friends reading your stuff. Heck, even if they don’t like it – it’s happened to me, I’ve written stories that afterwards someone I’ve grown close to in fandom has been like “so um I actually didn’t like that one much” – you still won’t lose your friends over it, and something else you write, that person will adore and someone else will maybe like a bit less.
So keep writing, and keep believing in yourself, and keep trusting your friends. You got this. 😉 ❤
Thank you 🙂 I needed to hear that.
Objectively, I know that even if my friends don’t like what I write they’re not gonna like me less. (I have friends who don’t like a few of the things I ship or write anyway) but I always have that little nagging in the back of my head that goes “they’re going to think less of you for this”.
But you’re right. My brain is a liar. I just gotta keep writing and doin’ what I do. 🙂
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