How Response Helps Novice?

I almost lost my confidence. I was silent for several days. It was because of disappointment, which I thought I could resolve by giving up.

But, as what other says; whatever thoughts which untold must be unfolded.

I did.

I posted “A Confession from a Novice” in Medium. It is a piece of writing which hoping that wizard writers could give any advice for me.
After three days, I received twelve recommendations, one note and one response. Perhaps you’re smiling right now while reading this because it’s not a huge bulk of feedback, which may not need for me to spread all over the world.

However, how do those responses affect to me?

1. Confidence and Courage

“Don’t give up. You clearly love writing, so take every opportunity to keep getting better. And confidence is something all writers struggle with”, I received this line from Tom Farr.

Hearing that piece of advice made me think, he is right. Medium gives me an opportunity to post, to get involve and to learn, therefore, why should I stop. If it is true that every writer struggles the same confidence issue, then why they are successful now?

Perhaps, it’s because they didn’t give up.

2. Yes! I exist!

For the last four months, since I became a member in Medium, I thought I never exist. How do I know if I really exist when I haven’t received any responses from others? Or even seeing that there’s someone reads my post?

I couldn’t help myself to stop thinking;

Am I really part of this?
Does my work can really be seen by others?
Who cares, anyway?

Those thoughts were bent since I received responses from the medium community, though it isn’t as huge as others responses, yet it’s enough for me to prove that I am existing in this community.

3. Grammar

In my previous post, I express my difficulties in grammar. Even at this time while I’m writing this, I still confused about my grammar.

As what Veronica Montes advised me that “grammar is easy to fix” and also about what Tom Farr thought; “Grammar can be tough if you don’t know what to look for…”

From the thoughts of wizard writers, I should change my perspective that grammar is not a villain in my writing or barriers of my learning but if only I just give myself a chance to spot what’s wrong on my writing and to learn out from it maybe from time to time I can be good at it.

Perhaps at this time, though it’s not perfect yet, but at least I tried.

4. Networking

Deborah Foster shared her experience that there was also times that some of her works got low recommendation rates.

By this, I can feel her empathy. She knew my feeling for having low recommendation rates because she experienced that too.

“I’ve been told it is about networking… I’ve been told to just keep writing and reading. That’s the best advice I’ve heard.” — Deborah Foster

By sharing her experience and the advice she got, I found out that maybe I am also a lack of networking. She introduces me how networking influence to get notice.

We love responding thoughts from lovely works, from known writers, from famous people, but on the other hand, we forgot to ask, “How my response helps a novice?”