Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
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