Comment by conviencefee999

I'd advise against following advice from individuals like this for many reasons, one to mention survivorship bias to basic things like being picked up by a publishing house. Advice from people like this is often just kind of useless if not actively detrimental to your quality of life. You can do all the things stated here and fail. The reality is that the way the writing industry works it is a very selective and closed door process that does not allow a majority of those or even a minority into it's industry.