I’m pretty seriously on board with this idea. For one, I just want to know what you mutants have kicking around in your heads. @singletona082 in particular. Your comments here, pieced together, already feel to me like a tension-filled powerful personal narrative of a young live-wire with their leg in a emotional bear trap (sorry if I’m romanticizing / trivializing / pigeonholing…). I’d love to read your creative work. I wouldn’t have much in the way of criticism, I don’t have a leg to stand on, but I can certainly tell you what I like, or was confused by.
The advice to find a community is a great one, but it seems like @singletona082 has found a community they feel safe at least talking about their situation and their desire to create. Personally, I’d share my filing cabinet/google docs collection with you all before anyone else. I think a site with strong moderation, and a strong culture of long-term pseudonymous participation is a great place, especially for timid people to start to gather criticism, or just to show stuff to SOMEBODY.
I think it would be worth having a new comment category. Like games, but dedicated to sharing creative work of commenters. Kind of like taking the “Watcha Workin on” thread, and turning it into a category, so that then thread topics could be titled with a genre, medium, or even just dedicated to one piece that a person wanted to share. ETA: Well, sometimes I can be a dense bastard, I’ll give me that.
