What Keeps You Going Without Any Encouragement?

In the electronic world, there's no such thing as keeping things to yourself. You send im to one person, and it goes viral from there. For the first ten years, i never had a response. The interesting question is, really, what kept me going without any encouragement? But it seems i did. What was won off in the beginning became a habit. And i find writing to be a good creative outlet. It has values for me too.