How to Stay Lit When Everything Wants to Dim You
There's this energy you get when you first start something. The spark. The "holy shit, this could actually work" feeling. The thing that makes you stay up until 4am building, creating, believing. It's not infinite. And nobody warns you about that. They don't tell you that hope is a resource. That it leaks. That every setback, every silence, every "no one's buying, no one's commenting, no one gives a shit" moment drains the tank a little more. Until one day you wake up and the spark is just... dim. Not gone. But flickering. Tired. Wondering what the point is. I've been there. More than once. And here's what I've learned: The spark doesn't die all at once. It dies in small moments. When you refresh the page and see zero sales. When you post something you're proud of and hear crickets. When someone you thought would show up for you doesn't. It dies when you compare your chapter one to someone else's chapter twenty. It d...
