Creative Struggles

Hey! First blog post ever, pretty cool right?

Since this seems to be a wildly creative-minded community based on my experience, I wanted to come on here and ask if anyone else has experience with this issue I've had across my entire creative journey. I've been producing, writing, and recording my own music for a while now yet my public discography is essentially nothing. This is mainly because I've been afraid of two things, my inadequacy in technical production (mixing, mastering) as well as general insecurity regarding my creative identity and the way those two ideas mingle.

My inspirations in music are some of the eccentric figures in pop music and I can't imagine being any less eccentric myself without feeling that I'm cheapening my art, since I feel that what I've witnessed art can be has been widened so much in the past couple years. At the same time, I'm deathly afraid to lean into and be okay with that. Eccentric creativity comes naturally but I stifle that because of fear.

All that to say, I'd love to hear your stories regarding this or other similar creative struggles. How have you coped? What has worked, and what hasn't? How do you become more comfortable with who you are as a creative, and truly lean into your natural creative voice?

Looking forward to the discussion! :3