Atelier Log Lately I’ve been trying to get back into writing. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed doing, and I am in a constant state of having stories floating around in my head. Honestly it feels like a waste to have so many stories and not be putting them on paper, so to speak.
My biggest issue, though, is that I have a very hard time convincing myself that the stories I come up are worth telling, or that very many people would even want to read them. I’m fairly sure this is a feeling many authors struggle with, but I wonder how they overcome it. I have never been confident in the least, and I have never been able to reach any sort of audience outside my friends and/or people who already know of me — be it with art or writing or anything else. I have no clue how anyone does that. I find it extremely difficult to justify spending so much time and effort on something that only maybe 3 people care about to any capacity.
People will often say “do what you enjoy doing for yourself, because you enjoy it!” but I honestly think that mentality is kind of… dumb. To me there’s no point in doing something for myself; I might as well just keep it all in my imagination then. I want other people to notice and enjoy the things I create.
I wish I could just ask some prolific writers how they get over these feelings, or something. I’m still gonna try, I guess, it’s just very hard to scrounge up the motivation when I don’t know if it’s actually worth it or not. ;n;