How do you stay motivated when your fic has low engagement?

I’m about 20k into my fic and I decided to post the first two chapters and I honestly found it so disheartening - so much so that I deleted the fic of ao3. I struggled with engagement and only had a couple of reviews

How does everyone stay motivated when facing low engagement? I’m not writing purely to get comments and kudos but it does knock you when something you’ve worked so hard on gets barely any reception

(this isn’t a pity me post and I know it could just be the quality of my own writing hence the low engagement but I’m just looking for motivation advice!

Edit: thank you all for your advice! You’ve all motivated me to crack on 😊x

Edit2:God I love this community !! Dramione shippers are just the sweetest Ive decided I’m going to keep writing as frankly I love it but I’m going to hold off posting chapters until it’s completed so I don’t get hung up on engagement Thank you all again, I really appreciate the kindness