StuffingPuffin
Stuffing Puffin
Everything you say i 1000% agree. When you almost died then your perspective of the world shifted so drastically and you care more about the things you love and the things you’re afraid of what others might perceive useless is diminished. All hail for us!!
having a near-death experience does make a lot of hiccups we have just seem trivial. That happened to me after my cancer scare. I just started to realize there's no time for all this fretting and worrying about what everyone else will think when there's something I want to make and put out there (or…
There's always going to be people who will criticise you and mention something negative about your work, but the great thing about this site is I've actually never encountered them here. The community is great and everyone always has a nice thing to say. You can't avoid negative comments, just be…
Put it out and hope for the best, that's the only suggestion I can give you. I honestly have your same doubts and problems when it comes to publishing a series, but that's the beauty of it: you never know how things will go. Always try doing your best, put yourself out there, results will surely …
By remaining anonymous. Because no one knows who I am, and my artist self is separated from my real life self, I don't take any of the negativity tossed at my way personally. I can go outside my online creative bubble if it gets too distressing and come back when I feel like it. It's of course easy …
Switching from my native language to English killed my writer's anxiety for good. I was so terribly afraid of publishing my stories, of getting noticed, of not getting noticed, of having to deal with harsh critiques, of being trolled and harassed, etc. Now I'm perfectly calm about all that. It seems…
Though I don't think this is the only reason why most of us are doing this, I keep thinking I'm doing it for myself. Of course, everyone would like their stories to be liked, and talked about, or to get profit from it perhaps, but ultimately, we are doing it because we want to realize our ideas. …
I go all clinical on myself and remember that our brains have a negativity bias to try to protect us 
but that’s helpful for me to remember – because my brain really loves way too much trying to figure out any and all worst case scenarios. And even though that’s on overdrive for me (yay, anxiety [:…
100% agreeing with @arxianfall on this. I've been writing since I was in second grade, trying to show it to anyone who would pay attention, and while at first I was incredibly eager to show people anything I did, at some point after college I developed crippling imposter syndrome to go along with…
When you discover how infrequently it will actually be seen, some of the stage fright goes away. Worked for me, anyway. 
I've never actually had any anxiety about sharing my art and stories. I occasionally get mild jitters before jumping up on stage to sing, but never for my other creative endeavours. I suppose years of singing live in front of an audience kinda inoculated me against feeling nervous about sharing my c…
What I realized from putting my work online for so many years with ehhhh middling results is that, most of the time--you will get zero reaction out of people. If you are just a nice person, you will probably not see mean comments until you get to a certain point of popularity (and block, if you do. …
I was TERRIFIED when I first started posting my novel online. I still get anxious to this day anytime I post a new chapter. I think it’s perfectly normal to feel that way. You spend so much time and energy on a project, so of course you want people to like it! However, I’ve found that it’s gotten le…
I usually say- just go for it! It is scary, and I do not mean to downplay it. I completely understand and have been there in the past. Ultimately, the way I see it is either you share your art and gain fans, maybe some criticism, or you keep it to yourself and never get either. For me, I much rather…
No one cares. But, on the bright side, no one cares!
Yes.... I don't really have a solution for you, just commiseration. It's hard putting your brain babies out there for potential ridicule or indifference. Luckily I've been able to find a supportive community of creators, mostly from the forums, but the insecurity runs deep and I'm not sure I'll ever…
Practice and work out your self-cringe muscles - not writer, but similar experience as artist. Found a supportive place (this forum) and post things that I didn't feel confident about or even were super embarrassing for me to post (old art, romantic fluffy stuff). Just rip the band aid off and post …
I’ll be a patron of this thread cz I have the same problem but with my art. Eventually though i mellowed out as i age and become adult and decided what the hell, i almost died of covid so might as well put it out there. The thing i am certain is to not put my whole focus on that thing, so i have to …