g0ldschatz said: (this is Marin) HARD SAME
BIG MOOD BRO
i was gonna reply to your writing post except apparently you still can’t reply when the post isn’t on your dash?? blarhg! but yeahhhh for me it’s more like your standard “lack of self-confidence and perfectionism” combo with some intense laziness thrown in, which is best solved with “sitting down and getting it done and eventually showing it to somebody even if that feels terrible”
(i’m mostly at the “i wrote everything down already and it’s a lot worse than i thought it would be” stage, and i read an interesting editing tip about starting a blank document and rewriting the story from scratch, which i have slightly modified to “look at every word in the original document and consider if you really want it there”, which is working out, sorta??? except that also means i’ll be stuck on the first two paragraphs forever. but that’s probably better than staring at a 4k document thinking “all of this??? is crap???” and not knowing where to start, so yeah.)
as for empathizing with characters, hmmmmm. for me it’s really the opposite problem because fucking up characterization was always my worst nightmare, like i feel like i have the tendency to make characters do things to fit the plot rather than the other way round and ending up with soulless puppets, soooooo yeah i got that emotional detachment, i just wish i could tell you where that comes from bc i’m great at (over-)empathizing with people irl??
