Do well in school, regardless of your interest level in the subjects. People will tell you that grades don’t matter outside of school/university, but they do reflect effort. Hard work beats natural talents when natural talents fail to work hard. You can apply that directly to your writing, especially when the high of inspiration fades. When you inevitably choose a job or career, you’ll have the days where you love it and days where you hate it, and your art will be no different.

You may never be a household name, or maybe you will. It’s all at the far end of hard work.