It's hilarious how we go through life proclaiming we're ready to do something, but go against it everyday. It becomes even easier when the proclamation is a well accepted thing that we've seen our heroes proclaim. Something like the term

paying your dues

. Everyone knows that whatever domain they are in, if it's a domain worth getting good in, you'll need to pay your dues.

If you have the taste of an expert but the habits of a beginner, you're going to probably knock everything in the middle. As in learning that someone is a

30 minutes a day

writer might make you scoff at them. Your brain might immediately come up with why 30 minutes is not enough, and how even if it is something then that person isn't going to write anything meaningful on that budget. 

I think beginners more easily see themselves in experts than intermediates. The habits and practices of someone in the middle don't feel sexy enough and the intermediate writer has no celebrity to attract the allure of the beginner. And yet when they read about the writing habits of a pro, they selectively look at the parts that resonate with them and they get giddy. That's me! they will think, conveniently ignoring the parts that don't align... like consistency. 

As a beginner you might knock the fact that someone is a 30 minutes a day writer because you know deep down that you're destined for greater things. But for destiny to play itself our you probably will need to pay your dues. And be the unsexy intermediate.