Maya Marshall of Haymarket Books
Read widely and attentively. Read interviews and letters from writers.
Find a writing community and keep it until you grow ready for a new writing community.
You are a person who makes things—poems, essays, short stories—but this is not your whole identity. Go do things, outside, with other people.
Writers are vital parts of communities who archive and render legible ideas, events, and exchanges that might otherwise be lost or have only the short life of some piece of gossip.