For kids who're talented in writing fiction novels, what would be a good path?

[tuckethannock]

@scout59

A guy I dated in college is now a fiction writer who does well enough to support his wife and four kids with his earnings as a novelist. He majored in philosophy and never took a writing course (or had a coach), but he did write every single day for at least three hours while in college.

He once told me that the thing that helped him the most, at the beginning of his career, was having rich parents who supported him financially. Some of that is undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek, but there’s a grain of truth in that.

Your friend was 100% serious when he said that.