I don't know who told you that, but writers are NOT supposed to give advice. I've been spending the last few days muting all articles obout writing and self-help. It says something that this type of dross is so popular on Medium that all the real writers and good reading is blocked.

https://medium.com/born-to-write/why-i-muted-all-writing-publications-yesterday-52edcb3acda0