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Anyone else here NEVER want to be a public figure? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I ask cuz I was chatting with someone today about a creative project I'm working on, and said if I ever were to publish it I'd want to do so under a pseudo-name because if it did really well I wouldn't want to become famous, the idea of being famous at all makes me anxious.

They felt this was weird of them. Personally I think this can't be an uncommon sentiment, I mean plenty of authors out there despise public life, so I think it's a pretty common feeling.

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[–] anticlockwise@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

No interest in fame. Not even anonymously. If I desire anything, it's Silence. Death. Non-Being. I burn my own manuscripts. The idea that my ideas might propagate or diffuse into culture in any way horrifies me. I try not to even think.

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