As authors, we talk a lot about how productivity and good reviews don& #39;t measure our worth, but the single hardest thing for me to cope with is apathy.

That feeling that people just *don& #39;t care* about you or your work. I know it doesn& #39;t determine my worth, but it still *sucks*.
Like... we all know this industry is soul-sucking & things don& #39;t work right & we& #39;re all broke, but then add the struggle of people just *not caring*.

It& #39;s not that they hate your writing or you. They just don& #39;t care. It& #39;s almost worse bc at least hate would mean they read it!
And I& #39;ve always been that "unimportant friend" that everyone forgets to invite to things & I& #39;ve come to terms with this, but the thing we don& #39;t talk about is how

As an author, your income is determined by whether or not people care about you. Agents, publishers, readers, etc.
Being uninteresting is a death sentence as a creative, but it& #39;s also out of our control. If people don& #39;t care about what we make, how do we change that?

I can put my whole self on display again & again, but if no one cares, what does it matter? What can I do?
It& #39;s just funny to be the type of person who spent so long internalizing "It doesn& #39;t matter what they think!"

Just to find my whole income is reliant on what they think, but also, fitting in isn& #39;t enough. To be paid, I have to more than good. I have to *spectacular*.
And there& #39;s a lot of good advice about keeping your eyes on your own paper, but this is beyond that, at least for me.

It& #39;s not a question of do other people have it better but just... what do they have that I don& #39;t? What makes people likeable? I don& #39;t actually know.
Anyway, this is probably my biggest publishing fear. I& #39;ve spent years honing my craft, prioritizing high concept ideas, making connections, building a brand...

But what if people still don& #39;t care? Even when I& #39;ve done everything I can do, what if I& #39;m still not interesting enough?
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