For the nights when you write but nothing reaches anyone. Why I was able to escape the days of no likes and no sales

Why do I even write? When no one reacts.
No likes, no new followers.
Paid articles? If they sell, it's one or two people.
This is reality. I know.

But somewhere, I still believe.
If I keep writing, someday it will pay off. People say, "Effort never betrays you."
Yeah, that betrays you quite often. But it's scary to stop believing entirely.

So I write. Today, I write again.
I just can't give up on the day the likes increase, the day the followers grow, the day a paid article sells a little.

But I've already written dozens of articles. Still, there's no sign of change.
Sometimes I think, "How long am I going to keep doing this?"
But I feel like if I quit, it's really over, so I just keep writing.

I don't have any confidence left.
But a single notification makes me think, "Oh?"
That alone is enough to make me write today.
There are probably a lot of people like that on note right now.
And I was one of them.

✅️The more things aren't going well, the louder other people's success sounds

When I see someone post, "Hit X amount on note!"
I want to flip my phone over.
And some people even say, "Surpassed X amount in total sales!"
They're practically a different species (monsters, really).
I honestly think people who can see that and think, "I'll do my best too," are amazing.
I usually just get crushed. Then I open it again five minutes later (take a deep breath~). What am I doing?

I was one of those people who believed the phrase "Effort will be rewarded."
As someone who is putting in the effort but hasn't been rewarded yet, it's become like a curse.
But strangely, I can't quit.
Even if I don't get likes, I think, "Maybe someone is reading this right now."
As long as thatmayberemains, people will write—no, I will write.

Maybe my words will save someone's night, even just a little.
That's probably 90% delusion.
But I believe in that 10% miracle and write every day.
In the end, it's me, the one writing, who is being saved.

✅️It was more important to "rebuild" than to "do it well"

I looked for reasons why I wasn't growing and scoured for know-how.
Title techniques, opening templates, structures that go viral.
I tried everything.
Like "put numbers in the title" or "start with a question."
Yeah, I know. I'm doing that even without being told.
I'm conscious of it, but the moment I'm conscious of it, it becomes boring.

The more I aim for it, the more the passion cools down.
The result was a total miss.

Or rather, my writing started to sound more and more like a manual.
I was becoming just like everyone else. I was a clone.
I'd suddenly come to my senses halfway through and think, "Whose words am I writing here?"
I had conformed too much to the "correct answers" of strangers, and I had lost myself.

So I changed direction halfway through. You should be able to feel the difference between the old me and the current me when you read.

As long as you're trying to write well, it really won't reach anyone.
The temperature (the heat) just disappears.
Like a stove with the fire dying out, it looks fine on the surface, but it's already lukewarm.
The more I wrote according to the manual, the thinner the reaction was, and the emptier I felt.
Even when I read it back myself, it was boring (rumor has it I just lack literary talent).

What I needed wasn'ta way to do it wellbuta way to rebuildmyself.
Before learning other people's know-how, I needed to polish myself—that came first.

✅️There is meaning in the "days of not reaching anyone"

It doesn't reach. It really doesn't reach.
No one praises me, and no notifications come.
But I feel like that period was quietly the mostintensetime.
In a negative sense, that is.

No reaction to anything I wrote.
I thought, "Maybe I should just quit," many times.
But when I imaginedthe version of me that quitthat wasn't a version of myself I wanted to become.
Like, "So you finally quit, huh?"

Eventually, I started thinking about writing things I could be satisfied with, rather than writing things that would reach someone.
I feel like things started to change little by little from there.

✅️To those standing in the same place

If you are standing still like this right now, you don't need to rush.
Standing still isn't slacking off; you're just out of breath.
I think it's proof that you were running at full speed (let's catch our breath for a moment).

It is precisely when things are painful that your true self comes out in your writing.
Even when you try to write well, at times like that, the endings of your sentences are usually dead.
With a string of "I think..." and "I feel...", you end up looking like you have no confidence.
But strangely enough, those are the kinds of articles that sometimes strike a chord with someone (is that really true?).

Sometimes, "earnest words" reach people better than "well-written prose."
I suppose the readers aren't stupid either, so they can usually tell whether you're writing from the heart or not (I'm stupid, so I can't tell!).

So, you should just write with your shoulders relaxed.
You don't need to think about saving someone or solving their problems.
That stuff can wait.
There are actually quite a lot of people who survive by doing just that. Like me, for instance.

If you can still write, that alone is enough.

The reason I was able to escape was that Istopped trying to "write well" and changed it to "writing to reclaim myself."

✅️ It's not too late

I've been lost for a long time, too.
And what I've compiled in that article ishow to rebuild your writing style, which I arrived at while being lost.
It's titled "Note Manual | The first article beginners should read. It's not too late to correct your course".

This isn't abouthow to grow, but abouthow not to break.I want people who want to continue using Note but are on the verge of breaking down to read this.
So that you don't waste those nights when nothing reaches anyone.
And so that you can return to being
the version of yourself that wants to writeonce again.

I think this is a turning point.
Will you continue following the manual as is, or will you forge your own path with your own words?

The choice is yours.
(Though I'm already on this side.)

If you read this article and put it into practice, Note will become fun.
But it will also get busy.
Because you will findyour reason for writing.👇️

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