I definitely am new and unskilled but I'm also a fanatic. I spend hour reading, books, forums, and magazines. Every time I have the opportunity to talk to experienced brewer I ask questions and listen until I think their tired of talking.
If you have someone in your area that consistently brews good beer - ask if you can hang out with them on a brew day or two..... Honestly, you can learn more in one day, watching a good brewer or two than you can trying to read and apply stuff on your own batches. Even after brewing for 20 years...... if I go and hang out with someone else while they brew, I always notice something I had never thought of, or never occurred to me. Seeing someone's process might trigger ideas you never even thought of.