Learning How to Be A Successful Writer

I have learned that there is more to learning than I first suspected.

I am an autodidact who has been very, very lazy since graduating high school.

I have taught myself many things, but I have not been teaching myself what I really want to learn.

I really want to learn how to be a successful writer.

What can I do to learn how to be a successful writer?

1. Read books that teach me how to write.

2. Write as often as possible.

3. Read as much as possible.

4. Read books that teach me the lives of those who have written before me.

I think the only one that will really make much of a difference is #2. above.

WRITE AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.

That is the only advice I am going to take right now.

The more I write, the better I will get.

But it has to be the right kind of writing.

Deliberate practice.

Destruction of ideas and synthesis of the pieces.

That is what it requires.