When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
As writers we need to crack open language.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.