Post by Espyo on Jun 4, 2016 18:17:11 GMT
But I did care about your story since the start. Anybody can easily care about having something be the best it can be, but not experience it.
Don't hate yourself for not making it far on something. Love yourself for having tried. Ask anybody older than 20 for how many things they've tried that went pretty badly. Chances are it's several. Like Creative Sushi said, I've had countless other projects, half of which never got any attention. Heck, or even any quality (5-years-ago me is a horrible coder). I don't regret them one bit. I learned from them, and I spent some fun time making them. They never caused problems, so no regrets.
Also, about perfectionism, I think that that's a term that's not used very well most of the time. Perfectionism is when you want something to be perfect. ...But that's only possible on quantitative stuff. A multiple-choice test can be perfected. An essay cannot. Almost any word you write could be changed to another word, or an expression for another. And neither option would be "perfect". For most of them, neither option would be better than the other, too. For a story, the best you can hope for is the best, not perfection. You may have reached the best text possible on this or that paragraph, but if you keep trying for "perfection", you'll never get there, because it's not a state that exists.
But look, if you don't want to burden yourself with thinking about competition, disappointing others, etc., then you know what? Don't. Luckily, it's something you can afford to do in this case, since it's just a fan story. It being successful, bad, or canceled won't have any strong impact anywhere. So in all honesty, just do whatever you want to do. Cancel it if you want, continue if you want. Right now, you can afford to choose what's best for you, so don't pick what's worse.
Also, if you need to talk about how you feel or how you think you should feel, remember that we're all ears on the IRC.
Don't hate yourself for not making it far on something. Love yourself for having tried. Ask anybody older than 20 for how many things they've tried that went pretty badly. Chances are it's several. Like Creative Sushi said, I've had countless other projects, half of which never got any attention. Heck, or even any quality (5-years-ago me is a horrible coder). I don't regret them one bit. I learned from them, and I spent some fun time making them. They never caused problems, so no regrets.
Also, about perfectionism, I think that that's a term that's not used very well most of the time. Perfectionism is when you want something to be perfect. ...But that's only possible on quantitative stuff. A multiple-choice test can be perfected. An essay cannot. Almost any word you write could be changed to another word, or an expression for another. And neither option would be "perfect". For most of them, neither option would be better than the other, too. For a story, the best you can hope for is the best, not perfection. You may have reached the best text possible on this or that paragraph, but if you keep trying for "perfection", you'll never get there, because it's not a state that exists.
But look, if you don't want to burden yourself with thinking about competition, disappointing others, etc., then you know what? Don't. Luckily, it's something you can afford to do in this case, since it's just a fan story. It being successful, bad, or canceled won't have any strong impact anywhere. So in all honesty, just do whatever you want to do. Cancel it if you want, continue if you want. Right now, you can afford to choose what's best for you, so don't pick what's worse.
Also, if you need to talk about how you feel or how you think you should feel, remember that we're all ears on the IRC.