queersk: pro-antagonist: Sometimes it’s really lonely being an author. Because when you’re writing,...

queersk:

pro-antagonist:

Sometimes it’s really lonely being an author. Because when you’re writing, you’re doing it alone, and there’s no one there to gush over silly feelings with you.

And I suppose that’s why reader comments are important to authors. It’s not about the compliments. It’s that we’ve been alone with our thoughts this whole time. It’s an awesome feeling when a friend shows up to share them with you.

if i may just add to this: sometimes writing doesn’t feel complete until someone comes to you and tells them what they think. and sometimes we don’t know if what we wrote works until a complete stranger, who knows nothing about us and the way we think, comes and tells us so. that experience of a reader telling us they get it or that they can relate to it in ways we might not have even expected? that almost makes up for the fact that writing can be so lonely and isolating.