Well, I don't send stuff in the mail that often but I often had similar feelings whenever I took writer's workshop classes back in college. I mean, I'd slave for hour after hour on my story for the week, carefully proof-read it, until I was certain that what I was written was totally kick-ass. Then there's the moment where you actually hand out copies in the class for everyone to read and workshop later on and you go "ohhhhhhhh shit, what have I done? What was I thinking?"
Fortunetly, my stories were usually very popular, so my fears were often unfounded, but still, not a nice feeling, no sir. But if you care enough about something you did you should give a damn and worry about it failing horribly.
Actually, I've had a few "post-delivery angst" moments myself at this very website, usually right after I hit "post reply". In those moments I've found my fears were often justified. |
