Err... well... after a certain age you automatically do reality checks, y'know? Oh boo-hoo-hoo I'm all alone why am I all alone where's my Significant Other weep weep. And the little voice says Think back to when you had a SigOth, remember what a nuisance it was? Ah. Yes. Yes I do.
So equally when I'm tempted to do the squirrel cage thing Ohhh my stuff sucks, the world doesn't spaniel all over it, I'm not a BNFW, I'm not the first person people rec in my fandom boo-hoo-hoo the little voice says Whose fics *does* the world spaniel over these days? and provides a short list of names. So, ya wanna be in that league? No. No, emphatically not. I want to be esteemed by the discriminating. (looks around at present company) Oh, guess I am. Win-win, like I say.
The only thing reality checks don't help with is when people are genuinely better writers. I want to write as well as afrai (and I want to be her age again too. Or, well, maybe not) and I don't. Dommage. Or boo-hoo-hoo, depending on hormones.
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So equally when I'm tempted to do the squirrel cage thing Ohhh my stuff sucks, the world doesn't spaniel all over it, I'm not a BNFW, I'm not the first person people rec in my fandom boo-hoo-hoo the little voice says Whose fics *does* the world spaniel over these days? and provides a short list of names. So, ya wanna be in that league? No. No, emphatically not. I want to be esteemed by the discriminating. (looks around at present company) Oh, guess I am. Win-win, like I say.
The only thing reality checks don't help with is when people are genuinely better writers. I want to write as well as afrai (and I want to be her age again too. Or, well, maybe not) and I don't. Dommage. Or boo-hoo-hoo, depending on hormones.