lunabee34

That's interesting.

I tend to feel good about what I've written. The exception would be those first few fics when I was just starting to write creatively. Those aren't so great LOL, but you've got to start somewhere, right?

I know what you mean about performance anxiety. I usually don't feel that way re: fanfic, but what you describe here is pretty much exactly the way I feel about much of the academic writing I have to do. I get paralyzed before I even write (or at the very beginning stages) because I believe it has to live up to this impossible ideal. It's very debilitating and counterproductive and I stomp on it. LOL