What steps should I take to become a full time writer? I'm graduating uni soon & plan to take a year off to write and then I'll get qualified in teaching the year after but I really hope I can earn a living through my writing. The future scares me :(

This is a tough question because no two writers follow the same path to publication or to full-time writer-dom. And there are so many sub-categories to this answer, so I’m just going to give the broad strokes here. Feel free to follow up with specifics if I don’t address your question! Warning: this is also really long. I apologize in advance. But it’s a BIG question. More under the cut, to spare people just scrolling past from getting a huge block of text. ;)

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