My tweets

[mythicfox]

• Tue, 23:00: Few things give me Impostor Syndrome more than dealing with someone who has actually built me up in their heads to be more than I am.
• Tue, 23:01: Yes, I _have_ always had trouble spelling that word right the first time. Shut up.
• Wed, 00:22: Few things justify my need for portable keyboards more than looking at my own scribbled notes in margins. #writing
• Wed, 01:04: For some reason, seeing "I see what you did there" as a developer comment pleases me a little more than it should. #writing #redlines
• Wed, 01:05: (It's probably because I'm really self-conscious about my ability to subtly get ideas across.)
• Wed, 01:45: If imagining [REDACTED] as sort of a functional, pre-revolution Rapture is wrong then I don't want to be right. #writing

Comments

[mafiabass.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as "more than Shaff." You're Shaff FFS!

Seriously though, consider that those folks are seeing something in you that you don't, that it's really there.

[mythicfox.livejournal.com]

Well, I was more referring to people who actually measurably overestimate me. People who think I regularly talk to certain people or assume that my word count when writing is much higher than it is. And when I try to tell then that it's not the case, it comes across like I'm being placating or humble when I'm actually trying to be like 'no, really, I've managed to write about two paragraphs this week' when they seem to think short stories are just falling out of me.

So it doesn't do much to help those irrational moments when I actually do feel like this. (http://threepanelsoul.com/2013/10/14/on-impostor-syndrome/)