I get beyond discouraged when I make a site and it doesn't take off right away. I know you're supposed to wait and advertise. But what do you do when it's been a month, two months even, and you've put in the work and still nothing? This isn't me trying to be all woe is me either. As I'm sure it's something we've all felt.

It just gets disheartening to see something you were passionate about not take off. Ending up with a sense of why bother? Or thinking that it's something major that I'm doing wrong.

I've got this horrible problem of comparing the thing I'm doing to the stuff others are doing. Especially when it comes to something like making a site. I'll look over at places like Hoenn and it's large member base. Or No Heroes(I believe that's what it was called) a year or so back and wonder.

What are they doing right that I'm not?

Is it that fancy skin?

Is their writing better than mine?

And I'm not being friendly enough?

Am I just not trying hard enough?

Why won't this project take off when people have expressed interested in it?

Maybe I'm just not cut out for this.

And that's my own personal issue yeah. But every time I get the inkling to try something new. To attempt to make a site. Those thoughts just creep back into my head. No matter how hard I try to keep them away.