If your motivation is commercial rather than leisure, I suspect the answer lies in what you already know from tech.
It's about marketing. It's about finding a niche. It's about building an audience. It's about luck. It's about presentation. It's about finding a product market fit. It's about failing fast. And somewhere down the list of priorities, you'll need to be competent writer.
Doing what everyone else is doing, and expecting to win by the sheer force of brilliance, is probably a bad plan. Fortunately, 99% of your competitors are following that plan. But it does kind of rely on you writing somewhat cynically. Rather than for love of art.
With this huge caveat that I write for fun, so I'm pontificating. Take what I say with a cellar of salt.
It's about marketing. It's about finding a niche. It's about building an audience. It's about luck. It's about presentation. It's about finding a product market fit. It's about failing fast. And somewhere down the list of priorities, you'll need to be competent writer.
Doing what everyone else is doing, and expecting to win by the sheer force of brilliance, is probably a bad plan. Fortunately, 99% of your competitors are following that plan. But it does kind of rely on you writing somewhat cynically. Rather than for love of art.
With this huge caveat that I write for fun, so I'm pontificating. Take what I say with a cellar of salt.