This is the funniest statement I have read for a long time. You can't fake knowledge. Someone with real knowledge will immediately recognize it, and the rest don't matter.

As I've been published for 60 years, and as writing has been my job for nearly half my life, I'll explain.

Nobody earns money as a writer. It's the worst paid job there is. I've written on multiple writing sites since 1999. Generally only the top 5% even make payday. On hubpages, only 5% reach $50 per month. On Medium, only 5% reach $100 per month.

Those of us who earn reasonable payouts have all been writing for at least a decade, and we are generally professional writers.

As for all the stuff you have been told by the writing gurus, it's bs.

You don't have to write every day. You do have to be a brilliant writer.

You don't have to make friends with other writers. You have to write well enough for your writing to resonate with readers.

You get paid for your writing when you have thousands of readers (not followers) and they are reading you every day. In order to do that, you don't write about writing. You don't write about you. You write about things that people read about. In order to know what people read, you have to be a reader. I read for 5 hours (at least) every day. That's what readers do. That's also why the world's top writer spend most of their time reading - not writing.

I have a magazine called 'Born to Write' on Medium. It's free. I don't need to earn money from teaching people how to write. I write well enough to actually earn from writing.

So feel free to meander through to it. I hope it helps.