Confidence is key when you open up the well.

A new potter is a timid potter, it's the most immediate tell. 

Don’t dip your toes in only to jump out.

Don't spit and scream at the clay and please try not to shout.

You’re a ceramicist, a master of clay, commit to the action!

You are afterall a card carrying member of this clay bending faction. 

Have patience, have strength but most of all have conviction.

Don’t make a draft jump straight to the first edition,

You are making a pot, you aren’t pencilling fiction. 

Find the centre of the clay to commit with your thumbs.

Like a cyclone the centre of the clay is where the waves feel calm. 

Push down while you open up

Maybe clean your wheel head and tidy up the muck. 

Take your time but don't take away your courage, 

Because a potter that acts with boldness is a potter that will flourish.