This has honestly been something that's been on my mind for quite a while actually regarding my fantasy comics and planning, especially ever since I put the Dragoons on the shelf to focus on Tales of Phaeton.
So recently, I've been doing a lot of thinking regarding my relationship with my creative works and why I tend to feel certain ways regarding certain things in my creative process.
The biggest one I think I've realized that's blocking me is that deep down, part of me feels that I'm stupid and not good enough for some reason and thus as a result and by extension, my own ideas are stupid and not good enough either. Thish as kind of led to a bit of a mindset where I tend to have trouble actually coming up with stuff for my stories (Sure, I can think of a general outlines and ideas for stuff, but I always have trouble actually filling in the details I've found) or a tendency to let other people "write my story" for me when I lean more on them to fill in gaps and details of my stuff with their own feedback, ideas, interpretations of my work, etc. Again, seemingly born out of that deep down feeling "Me and my ideas = stupid" ergo "Other people = not stupid thus their ideas = not stupid either." if that makes sense. It also probably explains why I had/have a tendency to "copy-paste" ideas and stories from things I like that are vaguely similar to my ideas as well.
I know it's not a healthy mindset and it's something I've been working on and (thankfully) have been slowly getting better on that front, but I still find it to be a pretty big obstacle to deal with for my stuff.
Have you guys ever struggled with similar feelings? If so, how have you dealt with them? What's a good way for me to keep working on accepting myself as "Not stupid" and this that my ideas are "not stupid" as well? ALong with just being able to break my limits and fears in creative works in general to full push myself forward and grow?
Thanks for the help.