Chapter 3: When Success Became Heavy
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Winning should have felt like the end of the struggle.
But it wasn't.
Success brought expectations. Pressure replaced joy. Fear whispered in her mind: "One mistake and it's over. What if they don't like you?"
Slowly, the words stopped flowing. Her imagination blurred, even though ideas still knocked at her mind.
Favour tried to run from the pain. She sang. She danced. She posted. She waited for likes that never came the way she hoped.
And one day, she let go of writing — not because she stopped loving it, but because loving it had started to hurt too much.
She told herself it was never meant for her.
But deep down… her story was only resting.
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