Stop calling yourself an ‘aspiring writer’

Sometimes I stumble across writers on Instagram — I’m talking really good poets with loads of potential — and then I look at their bios and they describe themselves as an ‘aspiring poet’ or ‘aspiring writer’ and that makes me sad.

It is as if they are accepting themselves as unbloomed, as ‘other’ from the writer. But they cannot be other, can they? I can see their writing. It is there…