I definitely do. For me, it helped to not tell anyone in real life I was posting my writing. There’s a feeling of anonymity when no one you know personally is reading what you write. The people online are, for the most part, nothing but names and faces. After a while, I started telling the people in my life one at a time, but a lot of them still don’t know. I think like any emotional change it’s a crescive process. I broke out into a sweat the first time I posted a story about my social anxiety. And I swear my heart rate was elevated for a day after posting a story about my fears as a writer. But after doing it enough times, the fears just die down. That’s at least how it has worked for me.

Thank you so much taking the time to read my writing and leave such a thoughtful comment!