Is There Really Such a Thing as Failing as a Writer?

Get your Expectations Right and You’ll be a Writer Forever

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Am I a “successful” writer?

I guess for most standards, I am definitely far from being one. I barely have an audience, I don’t make a living from my writing and I am surrounded with non-writers in my daily life.

Also, it’s clear that my articles still need a whole lot of improvement to leave any kind of long term impact on my readership.

Yet, as Tammy Hader wrote beautifully in her article about The Truth About Learning to Be a Writer,

“After all, the first person who should believe that I am a writer, is me.”

Not only couldn’t I describe it in better words, this particularly resonated with me because, even after a few hundred hours put into writing for the past year, nobody in my circle would ever consider me as a writer.

And yet, on days when I wake up late and don’t get to write my article in the morning, I spend the entire day feeling the urge to do so.

You are a writer if you need to write

I start being in a rather negative mood and get irritated with whatever takes time as I…