There’s no straightforward path to becoming a successful writer. (Or if there is, I wouldn’t know about it, since I’m not one. Not yet.) But there are a number of ways to make money at writing, and the more you put out there the closer to becoming “successful” you get.

(Side note: success is what you make of it. My personal definition of success is “the ability to live comfortably off money earned from writing while also writing whatever I like”, which is… asking quite a lot of the universe, unfortunately.)

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