So you want to be a writer...

"A lot of people say they want to be a writer," begins Dante Shepherd in Lesson #864 - Writing Potential.
Imagination fills up when you observe, when you take in. Only then can I spew forth something a little offbeat, something the angst-filled artist-to-be in their lonely writer's garret doesn't have the capacity to do.
Dante makes a great point, and I will add this: You can't be a writer unless you write.