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The rain lashed against my Edinburgh window like thousands of tiny drummers playing a funeral march. Three weeks into my writer's residency, my notebook remained emptier than the Highland moors at midnight. That gnawing void in my chest wasn't creative block - it was the deafening silence of unshared words. My fingers scrolled through soulless feeds until 2AM, when a violet-hued icon caught my bleary eyes: Starmate. "For creators," it whispered. I scoffed. Another platform promising visibility w