You know, I joke a lot about never being able to finish a writing project even if it& #39;s something I& #39;m really invested in and want to see done but like I guess that& #39;s just another manifestation of my ADHD-caused Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
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It& #39;s a cycle that kind of looks like this:
-I want to write
-But what& #39;s the point nobody will read what I write so why am I wasting my effort on something that will ultimately mean nothing to anyone & the only way I know how to process value is thru external validation
-No write
-I want to write
-But what& #39;s the point nobody will read what I write so why am I wasting my effort on something that will ultimately mean nothing to anyone & the only way I know how to process value is thru external validation
-No write
And then I fall into a pattern of sadness and anxiety, where I feel frozen b/c I want to be writing but I can& #39;t write because my brain& #39;s like "there is no point to anything you do since no one else cares" so I get almost debilitatingly sad which reinforces the frozenness
Like there& #39;s no actual reason for my existence if I don& #39;t produce but there& #39;s no point to produce because no one will care about what I produce so the cycle of absolute inability perpetuates itself ad nauseam
Anyway I should probably more aggressively promote the few things I HAVE completed and have available for people to read but that sucks too because like, Twitter is a horrible way to promote things b/c of the algorithm or whatever
But ugh whatever here& #39;s a story I& #39;m proud of and is free to read: https://www.patreon.com/posts/short-story-26422730">https://www.patreon.com/posts/sho...
Here& #39;s another one I& #39;m proud of and is also free: https://www.patreon.com/posts/short-story-25348155">https://www.patreon.com/posts/sho...
And another. Probably my favorite story I& #39;ve written so far: https://www.patreon.com/posts/short-story-of-26420478">https://www.patreon.com/posts/sho...