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  • · SAS Member
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    So, I pretty much typed out my whole lengthy reply to your message on my blog post only to find that it wouldn't let me post it and then the whole post disappeared. And now it seems SAS has completely closed off the blog section for now. But anyway, I wanted to say thanks, I appreciate your comment and support :hugs: I hope you're doing okay yourself.

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    Thanks. I'm muddling along. Hopefully they'll get things sorted out in a way that doesn't piss off too many people keeps people happy. Feel free to message me any time. I'm a bit slow replying sometimes, but I don't mind listening.

    · Horny Lesbian not villain
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    Hey, you! :)

    Thank you for replying to that thread about making SAS popular. I wanted to respond to you, also -- but I was not sure what to say.

    Something I wanted to ask you before, when you had explained that you write professionally, is: have you posted a link to an example of your published writing at this forum? Of course, I understand keeping one's personal details private on the internet, but I think it is pretty great to have a professional writer as a member of SAS. So I was just wondering about that!

    I like your profile picture, by the way!

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    Not to worry. I miss stuff on this site all of the time :)

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    Did you ever try applying the research from Peak to your drawing practice? :) (Sort of joking but sort of not since you recommended it to me. I haven't finished it because I've been busy and unmotivated, but it's been interesting so far.)

    I can't make heads nor tails of grammar. Really? That surprises me. I suppose it might be different when you're writing whole books, or maybe you're just talking specifically about one or two aspects of it, but your grammar seems more than fine on here. Unless you mean understanding the underlying mechanisms of grammar, which I understand. But then that would mean that you at least have an intuitive understanding of it.

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    Idk, I think there might be a bravery in living despite all that. But, well, me too. I avoid all the challenging things in life. I'd like to think I have that sort of obsession about learning things as well, but something always seems to stop me. At this point I think it's a combination of things but ever since I was a kid I've had a tendency to disengage with the world around me and retreat to wish fulfillment fantasies, which can impede real-world progress. I also just don't have a lot of confidence in my own capabilities, to think or to play music or to create. But recently I've done better at exploring my creative passions a little bit, and it's been worth it. I think I can make it a now-and-again hobby, if nothing else.

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    Yeah, I don't think I could ever do anything like sales. I'd be terrible at it because I already sound insincere a lot of the time even when I'm not trying to sell something. Not to mention just having to talk to people all day long.

    Game design would be cool (minus the socializing, but that's true for a lot of jobs). I wish I was brave enough to actually explore new things. Even as a kid I wasn't very brave. I really wish I had started drawing and/or painting regularly at a young age, because I did eventually stumble upon the fact that I like making sculptures and it'd be helpful to actually be able to draw and paint. I've never done stop-motion animation, but I really like making things out of clay. I have some polymer clay in my basement, I really should use it sometime.

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    I see. That's a lot to contend with, and pretty brave to try. :squeeze

    I must have at least a Grade 9 education by now. :lol Well most people don't retain a lot of what they learn in school, I think it's more about learning to think and read critically, which I'd say you may be pretty good at given how much you read. But I'm in America so my standards may be automatically lower I guess lol.

    You don't strike me as someone meant for sales, although I could see you being decent at it. Occupational aptitude tests are frustrating for me. I feel like some of the things I'm good at, or just ideas that I like, are also things that lead me to professions I'd be bad at, because in the end they require true interpersonal skills and maybe more compassion than I'm built to give. :stu Although I did just take a short one on google (based purely off preferences) that said my 2nd best option was to be a stop-motion animator. I could get with that.

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    I feel like I might be making a bit of a breakthrough lately in my searching process, like I'm finally starting to sift through some of the crap. It's a little late in the game but I finally signed up for a couple biology classes, so I'll have more options if I want to get into animal behavior or work with animals in some way. I don't know if it'll go anywhere but it feels good to be proactive and actually reach after something. I've been really bad at that most of my life, thanks to low motivation and a lot of anxiety and avoidance. Hopefully it helps me get closer to my reason. Thanks for the words. :squeeze

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    Interesting. I know writers have all sorts of ways of going about it. I get curious because I think a part of me wants to be a writer, or maybe I just believe I should be writing because I've always had good writing skills and it'd be a shame not to use them. But I think it's cool that you do it for a living, and that you have a reason to do it beyond that too. And that gender identity book sounds promising, if only because I've read a lot of your posts on here and it seems like you always have something insightful to say. It sounds very exciting actually. I know (I think) you don't share your work with people from this site, but if you ever change your mind I'd love to read it. Is it a beast because of the complexity of the topic, or the realness of it, or something else?

    I hope those migraines go away so you can write. I can barely write as it is, and I don't have those sorts of issues. Sending you good health vibes :squeeze

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    Glad to hear you're holding the line. Or something like that. :) I do tend to like to be out among the humans, even if I don't know what to do with them, so it's been a little...constrictive, I guess but really not a lot of difference other than grocery shopping which I normally do every other day. So I'm painfully learning long term planning. Not going well so far, lol. :) Stay as safe and well as you can. :squeeze

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    I had some nachos the other day, they were definitely worth it. Now I want more. I'm doing ok, better than the last couple weeks which have been too busy for my demotivated brain. But now things are calmer and I'm trying to slowly climb my way out of the hole. Also trying to decide what I want to do with my life in general, though I do ask myself frequently what the point is since, yeah, the world is ending. :fallBut mostly I'm just plodding along as usual I guess, since social distancing is my natural state.

    I hope you start feeling better. :squeeze If you don't mind me asking, how long does it usually take you to write a book?

    · alien monk
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    60% is pretty good. i've been 80%, its a bit too much for me. i prefer to be less okay than that. but more than 50%.

    · alien monk
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    oh no, you replied. I wasnt really prepared for a response lol

    er I am also okay. 60% okay.

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    Thanks for the variety of recs. :) I do like fantasy, and Malazan has been on my radar for a while now, so maybe I'll give it a go. I'll check out those other ones, too. For some time I've wanted to get into more nonfiction stuff, but I have a habit of going to fiction and fantasy to get out of the real world as much as I can, or at least allow me to imagine being someone else in it. And then I reread the same things over and over, when I read at all. :sigh But I figure having some interesting options is good.

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    I can see how that might be nice, about your family. But yeah, it does sound like reality show material, or a drama. Like Shameless, if you've ever seen it, except without the more redeeming moments of positive social support I guess, lol.

    And to your comment on the blogs about books, I hate myself a little bit for asking this but since you've read a lot, are there any books you'd recommend? Nonfiction or fiction, I suppose. Sorry I'm not being very specific, partly I just need more interesting books to read.
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