#mfw multiple things can be true at once 🫨🫨🫨

[shibaraki]

I wanted to say it’s alright if you care about notes. it’s normal for you to want your work to be received well and for your effort to be acknowledged. wanting that does not make you a shallow writer or a bad person—you don’t need to punish yourself for feeling upset or disheartened by a lack of engagement. it’s only if you start measuring your own value or the quality of your work by the amount of notes (or kudos) it gets that it starts being an issue. you’re allowed to care but don’t let it impede your desire to write or distract you from the community you already have, even if it is ‘small’

#mfw multiple things can be true at once 🫨🫨🫨 #I realise I’m not saying anything new here but I hate seeing other writers beat themselves up about it #and then I feel bad for the readers seeing it too!! everything MISERY! #priv