Of course, I can relate. My curation rate has gone down lately and I had a few bad weeks submitting to a publication that has now been deleted because…I think the editor had his own issues and it wasn’t really my writing he was rejecting.

I keep telling myself I just need to develop narcissistic traits.

Not sure where exactly one can obtain a personality disorder but think of how much better you would feel if you could just convince yourself of your own importance and be done with kicking yourself around the block.

Medium is often a mystery. When I first started writing here a year ago I was thrilled to get any claps. Then suddenly if I wasn’t being clapped up one side and down the other I would wonder what the HELL?

I have now eased into a place where I am trying to remember when the only folks who read my work were members of my little po-dunk writer’s guild…and to illustrate the fickle world of readership, there I went from being misunderstood to one guy convincing me if I didn’t try harder to get published I was depriving the world of something SUPER SUPER GREAT. (wow, that was nice!)

So, yeah. My advice? Swell your head. Be certain it’s not you, it’s them.

And like you’ve said,

Keep writing. I like reading what you’ve written. And I am the most important person in the universe.