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It may not be true for anyone else, I can only speak for myself, but what I’ve noticed is that when I feel that way, it’s usually everything to do with me, and nothing to do with anyone “out there” if that makes sense. Often, when I find the joy of the story again, the feeling passes. And I’m usually worse just after posting. It’s the nature of how we share our work, I think. It sends us off on a rollercoaster every time.

Haven’t gotten quite that way, mostly.  Though I have pulled forum posts, I don’t ever want to really be in the position of pulling stories … unless there’s a big check involved for doing so

I do tend to get trigger happy with the delete button. Either from a bad review (which is a terrible reason to pull a story, and I’d advise against it lol) or because an overwhelming silence breeds doubt and makes me think the story had something wrong with it, but I don’t know what so I get super self conscious about it. There’s only been two times in my many years here when I seriously wanted to pull all my shit. And that had everything to do with toxic friends making me want to disappear. 

I can’t say I can relate to what you’re feeling. I probably can’t. At least not the scale of it. But I hope you come out of it. Your stories are epic and endlessly entertaining. I adore them, even if I don’t always show it with my beta hat on. It’d be a shame if they weren’t out in the world for people to enjoy.