some of you are going to be like "but this is my emotional support catastrophizing" but you can swap it out for climate change and it will be just as depressing!

Ann Leckie

I know this isn't going to come across, like, at all, because it's writers I'm talking to, but for Mithras' sake, don't catastrophize! Don't spend all your time worrying about whether or not someone is going to like your work, whether editors are likely to buy it, whether it "sounds like AI"