It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.