Hi, anon! Thank you for asking! I'm surviving, which is good enough -- I hope you're doing well yourself.

Oh, I'm sorry if you're experiencing a writer's block. The one I've had only lasted a few weeks, but they were very very annoying and frustrating.

Well, my first advice to that as someone who is still a very inexperienced writer would be to read, but you're already doing it. I'm very glad my work is one of those who are setting the flame alight again.

My other advice would be to find a trope that you like, or a prompt that speaks to you a lot and try to outline it for yourself, maybe? See how you would build the story for yourself as a bullet list. But most importantly, write something that speaks to you and write it for you, like indulge in self-indulgence (that's what I did with Star; it was totally self-indulgent ahah). You don't have to publish it, but maybe writing something like that could give you the push you need to start writing again?

I'm not sure if the fear of judgement goes away eventually -- at least it never did for me, but writing for myself has been a very good advice all my friends kept giving me. I was always thinking "what if the people reading don't like this or that" or "what if they think it's boring" and who cares? It's your story. You write it the way you want, with the characterization you want, and you write it for yourself, and if other people enjoy it, that's just a bonus!

One of my closest friends told me "worrying is the worst way to use you imagination", so I will say the same thing to you, anon. Use your beautiful imagination to create the stories you want. ❤️