The path of a creator is a lonely & hard one at the beginning.

I remember when I'd tweet & like my own tweets with alts.

Or visiting my website in incognito so my analytics would show at least 1 visit that day.

Without platituding, sometimes you just gotta continue.

I also remember the first time I got retweeted by some bigger account & went from 30 followers to 100.

Spent all night refreshing the notifications.

Or the first time I had a tweet go viral & gain 1K followers, to then wanting to delete my account.

I also remember watching my YouTube videos in loop so at least it could have 20 views.

Or the first time I joined a DM group chat & I was so polite & respectful to everyone.

Heck, I remember my first podcast invitation.

I got so excited I went an hour earlier to an office, making sure the lighting was perfect.

Or the first offer to write a guest article.

I spent hours checking for typos, even asked my mother to proofread.

I spent 7 months going from 0 to 250 followers.

Had never written before.

Had a site with zero readers & articles with 600 words because I had never written before.

I remember searching for "how to write an article" & taking notes.

It's easy to look back now & say all I do is write silly tweets, mess around with the bois, get paid & get laid.

But the 7 first months I was entirely alone.

And it was a bit heartbreaking writing an article every week with zero readers.

I'm far from getting to where I want to.

But now I get 3M impressions monthly.

1-2K site readers monthly.

I don't do YT anymore but I had fun trying.

As mentioned above & without sounding too motivational, sometimes you just gotta push until things start to click.

Anyways, no real reason for this thread.

Have been having a conversation with a friend mentioning his path & I've seen myself in there somewhere.

Didn't really have any idea in mind when writing this, so here's my soundcloud

I uh, you know, make music in email form with words about topics like these: http://benjamingjw.com/newsletter