Haha, great post! I especially appreciate the soundtrack. ;)

This is one of those evergreen things: it's easy to get discouraged, but it can help to remember that if you actually write, you are a writer. That is literally all that is required. Some of us take classes and read technique manuals and analyze the writing of others in depth and participate in workshop groups to hone our pieces, but if you do the first three of those things and never write, you're not really a writer either.