I've been practicing writing for a while. Back to before I was barely even a tween doing cringe RPs, to the more serious solo stuff I do now. However, none of it has been public. I don't know how to deal with people seeing my old work, the idea makes me cringe. Seeing people so flippantly post things that are several months, even YEARS old is so shocking to me. I'm struggling to share things that are even a couple of months old.

I guess the hard thing for me is as opposed to singular art pieces, I'm trying to build larger stories. A lot of what I have written in private are small building blocks and scenes of a larger story, so to some extent sharing it is like sharing a huge WIP chunk for a story I will eventually be sharing in the future. You also just can't release WIP stories in the same way you can drawn art... It is very frustrating.

I can't just rewrite everything I've ever done, though. It's impractical, and pointless. At some point I have to just move on. Maybe I should focus less on building up a gallery of stuff I've done, and just post new stuff as I make it. It's hard, I've never done this before, but at least my path forward is becoming clearer. Any advice and experiences on similar struggles would be nice, it's lowkey tearing me apart and I feel a crashout coming.