Writing is like the snow?

I looked out of my window this morning, it is snowing and I considered how it is like writing, for me. I write at full pelt for weeks on end, never getting anywhere, but having a driving need to write out my imagination and seeing it on the screen in front of me, thus freeing my head for more stuff!
Then comes a lull, in which I start to look at my life objectively and see that I may have a lovely connection with fellow authors and such, but potential readers are few and far between, so why am I slogging away at this when no one is reading my work?
Then I receive a wonderful message via FB telling me my book 'Echoes' had kept someone up and grumpy for work for three days as they couldn't put it down!!! I smiled for days; it is all worth it.
So like the snow today, I watch it fall strong, then ease away, then strong yet again, before slowly, it begins to stick. A couple of hours later, I am looking at beautiful snow covering the earth that was once ugly and bare.
So I will keep slogging away and slowly learning to market my books. If anyone has any tips of potential readers - would love to hear from you. have had offers of paying for courses on how to market, but I'm in catch 22. need an editor and marketing strategies - no money to pay for what i need.
so again, I glance out at the piling snow. It will come. Knowledge will grow, be beautiful and I will be able to make things with it!!!

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Echoes