Hey! It's not shallow advice. :) I feel that it's good. Sometimes I fall into that pit of contrasting my creations with the creations of others and I feel like my doing it is pointless since they can do it so much better and I can never hope to get there. But beyond that, I know that I have value and I have to remind myself that. My creations have value for me, if not for others, and comparing myself to natives with decades of experience is unfair since I only have a few years' experience in writing and just about a decade learning the English language.
About taking a break, I'm on the other side of that. I take too many breaks, lol. I create for a few days or weeks, then I stop for months. I should balance my time out in order to be consistent with my workflow. I've been thinking of setting fixed times each day for working and fixed times for resting and playing.
I got much better when I started sharing my writings with others, reading the writings of others and comparing what we did differently. I didn't take differences as mistakes, but I didn't discard what they did as mere "differences". People always have different experiences and they know things I don't. I like to think that many differences are the result of breakthrough's that either of us has never had.
Thanks for the tips <3 They really put me under the wheels of a heavy train of thought.