aurorallycrowned
Hey, thanks for following me :) I'm definitely paranoid & a perfectionist too lol and I always get stressed haha! Don't be stressed over people not liking your story; only when stories get really, really popular do people hate out of envy, and then you have fans to back you up :) Anyway, it matters what you think of your own story, not what other people think, really. And speaking from experience, fanfics/stories get infinitely better after the first time you write one. (:
aurorallycrowned
@shy_anon Haha no problem. For me though the self-consciousness never really goes away but I suppose you just kind of get used to it after a while of putting yourself & your work out there. It does get easier :) I love Wattpad and I've been here forever (like 3 years but I got the account to support my friend for the first like year a half and I wasn't really on here at all) and it's a nice environment to be in! As I said before, nobody is really mean unless you either ask for it or you're insanely popular (which would be bound to happen anyway just like a celebrity or something because you won't find 1 celebrity where everybody likes that person). A lot of people are really nice and encouraging and some comments I've gotten on my works have made me feel a lot better about my stories too :) Goodness I go off on a lot of tangents haha sorry :P
shy_anon
@aurorallycrowned Wow! Thank you so much for your encouragement and advice! It really is a wise thing to say that to like your own story is the most important thing. I guess I am simply a little too self-conscious right now to only worry about what I think :)