My mom has a copy of the novel I wrote in high school / college. It's terrible. Nobody else will read it. But it made her proud.
I think my problem is a lack of self-worth from the PTSD my mom's abusive second husband gave me from ages 10 through 22.
I didn't think I *deserve* my own writing. It has to be for someone *else* or it isn't worth doing. *I'm* not worth it.
That gives me something to talk to my therapist about.
I do write about the monster, the outcast finding its way home or, more often, *almost* finding its way home.
Waterborne are my stand-ins, descendants of nymphs, merfolk, and elementals too alien to be human and too human to return to the sea, never fitting in or finding a home, except, occasionally, in their dreams.
J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:
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