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Fabulously Bore

It's all empty.
I don't know why this happened. I don't know what it means. I do know that I feel guilty. A writer must practice her craft. I also know leaving thoughts in my head only leads to the jumbling of reality.

Maybe it's that I've finally realised I'm not going to be what I know I should have become: a writer. And the only reason I quit the dream is because I have the self-confidence of a cripple on the starting line of a marathon. I'm not going to succeed in my dream because I simply gave up on myself. I gave up on the thought of uncertainty. I cringed at the fact that I would have to expose my work to some entry-level publisher. I became a literary malingerer. I am a literary malingerer. And, oddly, I accept that title, because it keeps me contained from the big bad world of reality.

So no, I'm not healthier. I simply died.

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Heaven is books and bathtubs.

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So sad :( does it have to be this way?

This was a diary entry excerpt... From 2007. Darker times for me. I'm much healthier now, but some of my most personal writing is from that time

Is this really what the life of a writer is like? It is my dream too...I hope you remember your dreams

Please don't give up! :)

First let me applaud you for braving this. Also I think this is the typical malady of the disenfranchised, and there are far too many of us out there. Why do some grow fat while most go hungry, unable to live and express their own special human beauty.