Wow, that's... wow. I almost never finish anything without the expectation of an audience, and I do better talking with people and making it into a social process almost every step of the way. (Everything except putting words on paper-- or computer, whichever.) I am so sorry to hear that people said those things to you. :( I care about your dumb stories, okay. I like your stories. They're nice and I can't believe it took me so long to start reading them. But I guess I can't shut your brainweasels up for you.

Although, I have to say, to the "talking about it is an excuse for not writing it" thing-- IDK about your process, but that's so wrong it doesn't even matter if it's technically true, it's STILL wrong, at least for me. If I'm off looking for an excuse to not be writing it, then something's *wrong* and I need to *fix* it, and if I want to do that, I usually (not always) need to talk it out. Talking about things makes me want to write them, helps me solve problems, and is fun, and that's not even counting the responses I sometimes get that can ALSO be helpful.

But if talking it out gets it out of your head and you don't want that, I guess that isn't true for you. :( Sorry.