A milestone accomplished

My first ever academic article was produced today. This is a baby step forward. Earlier, when writing course assignments, I never need to think so hard, the writing came naturally in free style, just a self-expression of some kind. However, this round, the 'writing' seemed so challenging. A lot of thoughts needed for the style rather than the contents, and most importantly, I could not grasp the expectation of the target audiences, unlike writing papers for 'practical readers'. Anyway, I know the paper has significant gaps since I hardly read many scholarly papers in my life... but it is a small step to my monograph writing in 2 years time, and I guess, more practise will gradually improve my skills in producing academic papers in future, hence, I am all in for the 'learning'... it is part of the personal development I am look for.