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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
Before I say this, I just want you to know it's not about what you said.
I've decided that this is the last piece I'm going to write. I just don't feel I'm good enough to really contribute anything to the community. I feel like it would be a waste of my time to attempt to write another story. I concerned myself too much with getting praise and shown myself that I couldn't handle even the idea that someone didn't like one of my stories. I'm too thin skinned to put my work out there, which is why I was afraid to do it all these years to begin with. I've seen too many bad writers remain bad over the years to think there's any chance I could actually improve and become a good writer. So with all those things in mind, I'm just going to call it quits. It's not about anything anyone else said or did. This is just me recognizing my own ineptitude.
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This here pretty much depends of what you want to do with your writing. If you are writing for the sake of writing and only looking for praise to do something meaningful and know you did something meaningful then I say you should never stop writing and posting what you write no matter how people react to your stories. Now if you want to grow out of the niche and become a professional writer well, get ready for a rough beatdown because no one will hold your hand in that regard and putting a price on writing is so hard that I can't find a propper adjective to describe it, but that as well isn't reason for anyone to give up. Writing is pretty much like a muscle that you have to flex every day to keep exercised, think of it that way, no one needs to see you working out but when you want to show it you want to make sure that everyone will stare and go "damn, dat guy is tough".