about the whole āwriting for nothingā thing..
i donāt say this from a place of hatred, but why donāt you just stop posting your fics if you feel like itās for nothing? or.. keep pushing out whatever comes to mind and let ppl find it themselves? thereās no point in putting something out that youāre not passionate about/ feel like is āfor nothingā, top 3 ways to burn yourself out but iām sure youāre aware
It isnāt about not being passionate about it. At all. Itās that writers here often have no idea how anyone else feels about their stories. And thatās hard. And like I mentioned at the end of my silly rant, a lot of the time people stop writing. Great writers stop writing. And it makes me sad.
The point was, which maybe I did a poor job of conveying, itās hard to continually get no feedback for something you did in fact pour your heart into. There is something soul crushing about being proud of something and sharing it and not being too sure what peopleās thoughts are.
It would be easy to think that maybe no feedback is your feedback, but that is rarely the case. Iāve read some great stuff with hundreds maybe thousands of likes only to go comment and see no one has ever left any actual feedback about the story. Itās just mind boggling. If I like something, I like to share that passion with other people and Iām rarely quiet about it. I know not everyone is like that.
Iāve hit burnout in the past, even with feedback, and quit writing altogether. You do have to find your own balance and reason to write or youāll find yourself writing to please everyone. The demands on writers on this platform can be very high especially if they have any kind of following. Just asking to hear peopleās thoughts isnāt a crazy, wild demand. Youād definitely think it was by someās response to peopleās wish for feedback and interaction.
Iāll go on and on if I donāt stop myself. I donāt even know if I answered your question, but thank you for the discourse.