Advice telling me to just create and perform and not worry about being good does not work for me.

[cypsiman2]

Like, sure, if I'm just writing a self-indulgent fanfiction its whatever. But when I'm working on something I care deeply about where I care about what I'm saying and how it comes across, being told not to care about quality is to me being told not to care about communicating and connecting at all. And that is just dismal and bleak.

I will keep at it while caring about the quality of my work like damn near every artist that anyone has ever cared about did.