Anonymous Coward · 5mo
Hey, I just wanted to send you best wishes for your new writing and accounts 💖 I have enjoyed your writing in the past, and I’m happy to know you won’t be giving it up. I’m also a writer and, although nowhere near as popular, I’ve also felt the weird “pigeonhole” effect with my own fics. It can be really disheartening when my favorite thing to write ends up getting comments asking for something I’m not feeling inspiration for anymore… so your thread about everything felt quite relatable. I hope things are a little better now than they used to be, and I hope they continue to get better instead of getting worse. Thank you for being allechant, and good luck in the future 💖
thank you very much for your well wishes! this period is better than it was a few months back, and i wanted to come back to writing because it used to be such an enjoyable escape / past time for me and i wanted to reclaim that rather than leave it festering this way.
i think some of the pressure is also innate, like for me i didn’t want to disappoint people or have them forget my account / work, so i also forced myself to write and publish even when i wasn’t quite feeling it and then emotionally that really backfired because it started feeling like work, haha. i hope you find your way out of that feeling of being pigeon-holed—it really is awful because then sometimes when you draft something it’s hard to tell if you don’t like the progress because you genuinely aren’t vibing with it or if it’s partially because you don’t think it suits your “brand” and people wouldn’t care for it.
