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Originally Posted by ShyPoetGirl
So I’m thinking maybe I should stop writing for good. I clearly have no talent anyway, and no promise of ever being published or recognized. I don’t enjoy it anymore because I’m now a perfectionist about it and can’t write a single damn thing without judging it as awful. I don’t give myself a chance to even finish a poem before I will convince myself it’s bad and throw it away. Besides the fact that there’s no point anymore. I mean, why carve 2-3 hrs. out of each day to slave over a poem you know is mediocre, fussing over every last little detail to make sure it’s ‘just right’…for what? So you can submit it to some website where maybe five people will read it, if you’re lucky? There are so many other, more meaningful things I could be doing with my time. The only problem is that being a writer is the one thing I really want to do with my life. Or it was. Now I don’t know what I want to do anymore.
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You can keep working on being a writer, yet keep other options open, but don't lose of your goal. You're very young, and maybe you'll get your work published when you're 25 or 30? There is so much time left. It takes a while to take off. Your work doesn't have to be liked by everybody, you could carve out a niche for yourself, or develop a cult following, who knows? Only appreciated by people who really understand you.
You could try another website, maybe some place where people love to read and share their stories with each other.
I can relate to you, I'm a perfectionist too, just not about writing.