I haven't been putting my own happiness first in a long, long time. Every story feels like it needs to be perfect, without flaw, like each successive one is the most important thing I've ever written. And that's making it harder and harder to write, because any time I run into a part where I don't already know exactly how the scene is going to go, I freeze up, panicking that anything I do might damage the overall story. All this, and I didn't even notice until a friend pointed it out to me recently. I don't even know how to stop thinking that way. u_u
I haven't been putting my own happiness first in a long, long time. Every story feels like it needs