i write! ficsional on twt and ao3. :)
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Hii! I just wanted to send you lots of love ♡ Saw your wip Wednesday as well and here to let you know that it is okay to take a break if that's what you need rn. As someone who works in the creative industry, I know how hard it is to curate something you're 100% satisfied with, since we are our own worst critic. Perfectionism sometimes can lead to burn out, so please make sure to take time for yourself too!! May your trials end in full bloom xx
hello! i saw your unusual wip wednesday and i wanted to offer some sort of comfort, just wasn't sure how exactly to do it. here's my humble attempt: being an artist sometimes really sucks. you've got the need to self-express, but sometimes the means don't come so easily. i know from personal experience how freeing it is to create and how confining and frustrated one feels when there's a barrier between you and your goal to do something in your area of interest (in this case: writing). what has always helped in such moments is reading. giving time to the project, maybe seeing this barrier as something closer to a water wall, a fountain rather than bricks or cement. what is on the other side is visible, but you have to wet your hands to reach it, maybe to cleanse your mind, too. i don't know if you should keep pushing or give up, that's only on you, but i know that both are equally brave. i hope you rediscover language and your love for it. know that there are people who enjoy your writing and your stories (myself included). whatever you do, you have other people, other artists who support you. take care & stay safe 💗
thank u sm dani, always good to receive words like this from a fellow writer 🫂 and i totally hear you, reading is a way for us to fill our well again, cleanse things out. what's frustrating tho is when you want/need to write all the time that you can no longer earnestly carve out time/headspace for reading 😭 & i've taken a break from this ongoing wip for so long already (4 months approx), so i can't help feeling like im betraying someone by dropping it again : ( i'm taking another crack at it, one last time, and if it doesnt work, ill sigh all my guilt out and shut the door, this time for a lot longer. the silver lining of not having many readers--the only one i'll be betraying is myself ❤️🩹
(on the bright side, if it doesn't work and i drop it, i'll definitely have more room for reading then ahahah)
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