Stay steady through stretches nobody will ever include in the story.

Every account of a long effort skips the majority of it. The months where nothing notable happened are not in the story, and yet they are where most of the actual work occurred. Staying steady through them is the unrecorded part of every achievement you admire.

When you are in one of those stretches, remember that it is normal rather than a sign of stagnation. The absence of a story is not the absence of progress.