@Dustyfeathers thank you sooooo much for this. It helps a lot. I wasn’t familiar or aware with some of the facts you mentioned such as the conferences. Thank you
Look up these names and find their websites, YouTubes, books and classes:
- Margie Lawson - great, inexpensive classes / workshops
- David Farland - prominent sci-fi / fantasy author, teaches in-person workshops and online. Online is cheaper, but in-person is pretty amazing. ;) Also has some YouTube videos and lots of tips / articles on his website & Facebook
- Brandon Sanderson - another prominent fantasy author - teaches at BYU sometimes, and there are (used to be?) videos of his classes either on YouTube or on a place like Coursera (can't remember the name, but Google is your friend)
- Critters Writing Workshop, online - free writers' community. You join a queue to submit your work for feedback, and while you wait, you read others' work and give them feedback
- The Fantasy Fiction Formula (book), by Deborah Chester who is a professor at U Oklahoma. Her classes gave us Jim Butcher and the Harry Dresden series. :D
- Orson Scott Card, look up MICE quotient, and his book on Viewpoint & Characters
- Save the Cat (book) - it's about screenwriting, but it applies to prose fiction, too.
- Re: Story, by Robert McKee - great, but dense. IMHO, cut your teeth on some of these other things first, then come back to Story later.
- Re: Wattpad - I'm on Wattpad, and I love it. Everyone is so nice there. BUT - don't publish on Wattpad just for the sake of being "published." It will not help you at this stage. If you want to develop your craft, Critters is much better. If your work is pro quality, SELL IT. Don't publish it for free. I use Wattpad only after something has been sold professionally and I have the rights back, and I use it so I can give people Wattpad links when I get emails asking for free stuff.
- Also, go find the writer's section at kboards.com and lurk / read as much as you can. It's largely aimed at indie authors who publish on Amazon. And just in case you're tempted to pooh-pooh self-publishing on Amazon, one of my friends is pulling down a quarter of a million dollars a year as an indie writer.
@DiotimaDM THANK YOU SO MUCH 
It means a lot for people who take their time out of their day to help someone. I really mean it when I say thank you 
I’m beyond delighted to get help
If you were my child, I’d advise majoring in whatever you wanted to major in in college. That includes creative writing, because the job of college is to learn to think. (Yes, this differs slightly from my entry above, but because that entry was long, I wanted to use shorthand.)
But I’d also advise being prepared to get that great day job. And to be proud of the day job. The day job is a wonderful place to learn about human nature, which is what all fiction writing is about, even the most speculative of sci-fi. So the plan would be major in X–some liberal arts something-or-other that teaches you great thinking skills, like history or economics or political science or theater or anthro or whatever. If it’s creative writing, then wonderful. If it’s not, good too. Choose whatever interests you. Then either get the Day Job immediately after graduation, a paralegal, for example. If that doesn’t seem possible, take a quick stop at community college to pick up bookkeeping skills or radiology or EMT certification or electrical wiring or welding or something that’s very employable. This may take a little research and planning: what fields are in demand? What have near 100% employment upon graduation? Those certificates are not expensive, quick to get, provide a skill set that’s marketable, and ideally will support your writing. My metric would be: what job can I get that won’t wear out me or my mind so that I can write each morning before work? It’s possible to get EMT certification during summer months between years of college, for example. Getting an internship while in college in the legal profession may set you up to become a paralegal afterwards. Best of luck, Adaline.
@Dustyfeathers Thank you
@Dustyfeathers It really means a lot for someone to help me out. I never thought I would get this much help. My grades, school, choosing a second major, and jobs has been stressing me out even though I’m a sophomore so getting a supportive message means a lot. It helps and is leading me down the right path. Thank you <3