/lit/ - Literature

Finally, the magazine at my university has responded to my submission - I'm going to be published! This is unbearably exciting. It's only a student publication, but a fair few people read it. It's an antidote to my sense of voicelessness. So I'm at least good enough for a bunch of earnest students.
Then again, I can resent my need for validation. I see that I gain meaning/purpose by affecting the worldviews of others, but sometimes the hole prevents me from creating, because I don't know if it's good enough. Praise from friends and family mean next to nothing.