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So...you ever have someone in a comment or in feedback on a story point out something about your story (or you) that you had never really thought about before?

It's a little...unnerving for the first second or so.

I know art imitates life or however you'd like to phrase it. But still...when I'm writing it, it's fiction to me. I'm imagining *whoever* in a situation and how they'd react. Someone who *is not me*. Except it is me, I know that on some level, but at the time, that's not important. So when I get comments about how well I capture obsession or just perfectly depicting the frustration of being inappropriately attracted to someone or a remark that the story was tense and real when to me it was just a cute moment between two made-up people...

It kind of snaps me out of my little fanfic daydream. And I go...oh! And am forced to kind of smile awkwardly and think about my life for a minute.

But that's probably only true for us repress and deny types, right?

I am such a dumbass sometimes.