How a Beginner’s Mindset Can Help to Thrive as a Writer

Attitude is everything, regardless of your years of experience

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I’m not sure exactly when you need to stop calling yourself a beginner, but I sure feel a new writer even if I started writing a whole lifetime ago. If we count my first attempt of poetry I started writing more than 3 decades ago, when I was 4. If we count only the more comprehensible poetry attempts, the short stories, the blogging and journaling of my high school years… that’s still over 20 years.

It feels like forever.

Yet I only started to publish my writing a few months ago. And the difference between writing for myself and writing for an audience is huge.

I am not an aspiring writer. I am not aspiring to write, I write.

I am a writer. Because I write, and you read me.

But I am definitely a new writer.

I have no track record of writing, I don’t have a portfolio, I don’t have a degree of it, I don’t have an agent, a book deal, I don’t have published books and e-books. And 6 months ago I had exactly zero followers. Now, it is very different and I have over 2.400 followers, 260 articles, countless pitches — some successful others are not. I still don’t have a book deal, and agent — but I have…