I'm... Back?

[obliviateamores]

It has been over a year since I have posted anything on here. Wow. My life got busier and busier, plus a bit of weird, and various mental health problems. I have kind of been hiding in a virtual hole for a long time now due to those, and I want to start poking my head out again. So, I'm hopefully going to be posting a bit more, reading more, etc.

Comments

[sassy_cissa]

Nice to see you again!! Welcome!! ♥

[obliviateamores]

Thank you! 😀

[digthewriter]

Welcome back.

I really like your journal layout. It's very pretty.

[obliviateamores]

Aww thanks! I have a minor obsession with tesselating swirls and things :D

[themightyflynn]

Welcome back! :)

[obliviateamores]

Thank you!

[this_bloody_cat]

It's always going to happen -- that, reading through stuff you wrote yesterday and feeling like it's total crap, like anyone could do better than you. Just, try to remember, it's all in your head, and that you're getting better at it. You see, I always thought that this one problem stemmed from my drive towards perfectionism. So... well, you see, it doesn't even make sense. In the end I just decided to keep writing -- although I changed that, somehow; I now write in my language -- and try to avoid reading the things I've written in the past. They're still getting comments, so I'm trusting those people, the ones who actually spend time reading through what I've written, to tell me I'm good enough, that the feelings I tried to describe got through. And that's what matters. Not what I think of them :)

[obliviateamores]

I think you're right - trying to keep moving forward rather than dwelling on previous writing is the way to keep going. And what you say about writing in your own language tallies with some things I've been thinking about to do with finding my own voice. English is my native language, and that's all I write in, but I do find it hard not to try and fit with any style of writing that I've enjoyed recently, and keep my voice natural and my own.

[enchanted_jae]

Good to see you again, and I hope to see more of you!

[obliviateamores]

Thank you! Lurking around a bit more now 🙂