Read, Read, Then Read Some More...

It's really painful to watch writers cheat there way out.

If you continually make spelling and grammatical errors without editing help, trust me, you need to put down the Books On Tape, and crack some books. Really. Go back and earn -- somewhere -- a basic undergraduate degree. Surely there's some institution that you respect, where you can put in your time learning the basics, before leading the discussion groups yourself?

How can you build a career on a crumbling foundation? Solidify the skills, then go forth and preach the word. Because it shows. Really.

And that bar's not going to be kept artificially low forever...

Fwiw.

If you are a professional writer, it means that some not substantial group of people have volunteered to live in your world. The way to respect that willingness, that submission, is to resist the urge toward despotism. There must be laws, and you can't put yourself above them. But the lure of lasers, super-powers, vampire bites and secret national security agencies is quite strong. And many writers cheat.

ADDED:
Bad, bad advice. This is why the publishing world currently has an overstock of depressed-me, I got dealt a raw hand in life and this is how I suffer memoirs.

And novels of affluent city people doing things inside. Or having things done for/to them, rather.

Trust me,
it's boring to read about depressed people who find no excitement in life, or lack the abilities or independence to make their own excitement either.

As the UW law professors I mentioned in the post below have discovered of late, it's really much, much easier to write if you have something in your life worth writing about. And that takes curiosity, for the most part ... and a healthy dose of imitation, if need be.