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If you don't even know whether there's anyone out there even noticing your existence
it's really hard to remain self-confident. |
Not to get
any feedback for your art is depressing. And it's even more depressing if it
happens after a phase when you could almost swim in feedback. I publish my
written works since 2004 on the internet, so I had much time to observe my
emotional reactions to feedback in different situations.
Of course
my subjective feelings can't be applied to everyone. Yet I've noticed - and
other artists may have noticed it as well - that not only the quality and
quantity of feedback for a particular artwork play a role but also the artist's
own attitude towards that artwork and how much feedback the artist gets in
general.
Personally
I've went through many emotional phases: