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If I feel compelled to write fiction, then why does doing so make me depressed?

Immediately after I finish something I feel excited about sharing it, but then after I do I always feel let down. I typically get positive feedback, occasionally a suggestion or two, so my post-sharing depression seems excessive. I also freak out if I go too long without finishing something and I can’t stand to read anything I’ve written after someone else has read it.

I don’t think I could stop if I wanted to, although I might be able to convince myself not to share my work anymore. I just want to love what I do, not have “the worst hobby ever” as a friend puts it.

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It seems like there wouldn’t be a simple and quick fix, so it might be worth going all out and joining some popular online writing community that appeals to you where people share there writings and talk about it. Then you could ease yourself out of whatever emotional limitations that have you feeling like that. This could be good, to be able to do the thing you enjoy and not have it end so badly. Or… even, rewrite the ending. The story is that once upon a person wrote some stories and ended up depressed then joined an online writing community, eased out of emotional limitations and was so happy to have written a great thing that everyone loved. It was awesome. The end.

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