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I miss writing.

Nothing discourages me more than looking up an author who's my age (or younger) and seeing their bios and realizing they've got MAs and fucking PhDs in Creative Writing and Literature and have done all sorts of things Related to Writing Fiction Professionally, while holding down an additional intense Real Life Job...

Meanwhile, I'm over here with a generic English degree, working as a dead-end office drone, and barely able to write a Patreon post, let alone a novel.

And like yes, my life looks very different from Their Life and I am not Them and blah blah circumstances blah.

Comparison is an unhelpful little bitch!

But lord, she's loud.

#ethan's rl stuff #useless whingeing #writing #original fiction #and I know no one will engage with this #because i haven't written any fanfic in years and that's all i'm known for on this hellsite #and i'm shit at building actual community #plus there are so many other horrors to endure

Medically speaking, I would like a do-over on this summer, please. 🙃

#the life of gaslight #useless whingeing

Description: a screenshot of a tweet from A.F. Linley (aka my alter ego in the hat). Text reads: “Struggling to be creative in the midst of *gestures at everything*, it’s very hard not to take every patron who cancels a subscription as a reflection on me as a writer.

“It’s not. I know it’s not. Sucks though, right along with everything else.”

(link to tweet)

#the life of gaslight #aflinley #my alter ego in the hat #the writing life #useless whingeing #this is not meant to be a guilt trip i just want to be sad

It’s Day 3 of feeling like the world’s worst hack writer and friends, I am really over this.

#the life of gaslight #useless whingeing #me @ my brain: why are you like this #also day 3 of feeling like an emotional time bomb but that's beside the point