I removed my short stories book because I felt like they weren't good enough, I've stared at them with a blinking cursor on a blank page with the original on a sticky note by its side to see if I could try and fix it. I've had family members read the pages over my shoulder and tell me that they were good and liked them, but I didn't.
I know now that it was probably stupid to fixate on how I felt about it because that would only make my own feelings about it worse. I'm thinking about putting my stories back up but I'm still plagued with self doubt.
I know I'm not a professional writer, I have no experience in writing. I just write because I like writing. Some of the stories I've written are nightmares I've had, or just a daydream that feels like forever but was just a couple of seconds.
I don't even know why I posted them in the first place, maybe I had too many grand ideas of writing an actual book, my dream of being a famous author as a kid pushing through to the forefront of my mind.
I don't even know why I'm writing this, maybe I'm being to optimistic in thinking that this will help my self-doubt disappear. Putting all of my thoughts on a page and hoping it will make something click in my brain and I can finally just write something without being filled with doubt.
I'm sorry if anyone actual liked the stories but I just couldn't.
