Real talk? I like how it lifts my confidence.
I'm quite an anxious person with a LOT of self doubt. I have a small group of friends and an okay job, but I never really felt like I fit in anywhere - even in comic circles and such. This leads to a bit too much of what I like to call "alone thinking time", which is never a good thing. There's some nights where I lie awake at night and think that I accomplish nothing, and that tomorrow will just be wasted.
But then I re-read some of the best things I've written, look at some of the best pages I've drawn and I think that I can actually do something that most people can't do. I'm not saying I'm a fantastic writer or a great artist, but when it all clicks together and I get a glimmer that I'm doing something good, it makes me feel like all that other shit doesn't matter as much. Not many people read my comic, but some that do tell me it's good, and that it has a voice, that's good for me I guess.
God it makes it sound like I just do it because I like the approval