/lit/ - Literature

>>6965351
rare

You just have to get past it. If it's bad then you're with the millions of other people who have shit writing, but at least you're trying. Being embarrassed can be normal cause you feel silly or like what you're doing is stupid and pointless but ya just have to not give a fuck believe in yourself or something.

Fag

I passed that phase years ago, by trying to improve and show my stuff to other writers and heard their criticism and advice. I am much more tolerant to my writing now, although I still don't think it is of any worth. But no embarrassment whatsoever.

The more anxiety and pressure and self-hatred you feel the more likely you are, IMO, to succeed. Those who don't experience these things cling to mediocrity. I think the subconscious is very underrated, in the sense that if it identifies a problem in your life it expends a lot of energy on solving said problem. You can see this with babies who spend most of their times sleeping and dreaming about events in which they are forced to stimulate survival and so on. Same with people who start a new job and dream about said job, it's your brain training you and helping you out without the burden of consciousness and the sort of restraints forced on a person when conscious.

>>6965351

I'm writing some bullshit right now and it's making me smile. That's the thing for me, anyway.

>>6965351
just write a diary and short stories you won't publish