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Looking back on your career as a writer, what is the most fundamental piece of advice you wish you had known about – or that you had taken to heart – when you set out to become a writer? Before ...
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2019-12-08T08:36:19Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T08:36:19Z (almost 5 years ago)
Looking back on your career as a writer, what is the most fundamental piece of advice you wish you had known about – or that you had taken to heart – when you set out to become a writer? * * * _Before you answer, **please note** the [career](/questions/tagged/career "show questions tagged 'career'") tag and the absence of the fiction tag. The question is intentionally not limited to a specific kind of writing, but to writing in general. I'm not asking how to write, but how to approach writing, if you want to make it your profession, or work on a professional level._ * * * After reviewing the current answers, I have found that many of them agree with each other and give the same basic advice. I have ordered and summarized the points I have found [in my answer](https://writing.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1556/29032) to [the meta discussion page for this question](https://writing.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1554/what-should-we-do-with-the-fundamental-career-advice-question).
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-04-23T19:46:37Z (over 6 years ago)
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