Justine says:

No joke. I’ve always wanted to be a writer myself but I never had the confidence nor the skill. Whenever I try to write my mind just goes in knots and I can’t stop thinking, “You suck this sucks this sucks this ain’t for you” kind of shit.

Good luck with your pursuit. They say when there’s a will, there’s a way and you’ve definitely got the will so I’m sure you’ll get there in no time.

Camille says:

I’m one of those people who wanted to be a writer but only wrote sometimes, and most of them unfinished stories with too much drama and too little substance. I had two other friends who were writers themselves and one of them I felt was able to wrote things my own writing never reached. I think in a way, all those years that I felt “I’ll never be as good as my friends” stopped me from trying harder.

I talked with her sometime recently and told her how much I admired her writing. Then, surprisingly, she told me she’s always admired mine, which took me by surprise because I thought very low of my skills in writing. I’m not perceptive enough; I’m not expressive enough; I don’t describe things well enough — I’ve always thought the me-as-a-writer as never enough and yes, for a long time I stopped trying.

I think the reason why I returned to blogging was because I wanted to just write about something. Not necessarily fiction, which I used to write often before. I wrote some stories again too, but definitely less than an occurrence of a blue moon.

So I’m glad you’re starting again because slow steps are still steps toward something and I believe you’ll get to become The Writer You Want To Be one day. :D