Letters by Burk

Letters by Burk

The Valley of Disappointment

That hunts every writer

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Burk
Nov 18, 2025
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We show up, we write, we publish, we polish our templates, we schedule our Substack posts, we noodle around in Notion. (Personal experience).

And nothing happens.

Not a tiny blip on the chart. Not a little bump. Not even a pity like.

This is the valley of disappointment from the super bestseller book Atomic Habits. Yeah, everybody …

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