I have anxiety and I often want to spring into things that would require continuous engagement, like blogging, and then get existential dread about it. That's where this differs. I mean quilts don't always get finished either, btu the model/comparison is sound.

So following up on this, I've been having a bit of weird imposter something something for buying a few books about zines. I have this feeling that if I were to do the thing, it should spring organically from my artistic senses and my creativity and all that. But then I've had TWO great ideas since starting to read these books that I think will make the project I'm planning much better or more interesting. I think this is a combination of creative imposter syndrome--and feeling like I may not belong in the space because I didn't join young enough... and individualism.

The thing is, I do belong to communities of people who write stuff and who make stuff. So. It's ok. And it's ok to start things and be new and do stuff for the first time in one's 30s. And fuck individualism.

@ruth There's definitely a cult of the young for ideas, where we think that only young people can start things and old people just ride out whatever ideas they had when they were kids.

It's bollocks.

I know everyone points to Col. Sanders as an example of someone who started something in his 50s, but I'm pretty sure if you dig deep enough you'll find others who start things well after their 20s.

Impostor be damned, go make the thing. (Advice for both of us).