no one tells you how quiet it is at the start.
you write something true, something that cost you, and you put it out into the world, and nothing happens. no likes. no replies. no proof that a single person read it. and you sit there wondering if you are talented enough, or if you are just talking to yourself.
i know that silence. i lived in it for years.
when i started, i had no audience and no permission. i posted my writing a hundred times before i got a single like. one hundred. most people quit at three. i kept going because i believed something i had no evidence for: that if i could reach one person, that one person could lead me to a second, and the second to a third….
that belief was the whole strategy. everyone told me i was wasting my time, giving my words away for free to a room that wasn’t listening. but i understood something they didn’t. every time you share, your reach grows. your arms get longer the more you show up. i just kept reaching until i touched enough people that being ignored stopped being possible.
i wasn’t discovered. i made myself impossible to ignore.
here is what i wish someone had told me back then, in that quiet:
being read is not a talent. it is a practice. you don’t get found. you get so clear, so consistent, so unwilling to disappear, that people can’t look away. the writers who make it are not the most gifted ones. they are the ones who showed up when everyone else went home.
your voice is not out there in someone else’s feed. it is in you, waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear it. and once you find it, the work is not to perfect it. the work is to be seen.
i built a whole career on that one understanding. it started in a room with no one in it.
if you are writing into that same silence right now, i made something for you.
it is called stop writing to no one. a 60-day journal that walks you through exactly how i did it, finding your voice, building your first real readers, and turning your words into a career. every day gives you something honest to read and then a page to write. by the end you don’t just understand how it works. you have your own body of work, and a real plan to be read.
it is the thing i wish someone had handed me at the start.
you don’t have to keep writing to no one.
