To make it as a writer

There are as many ways to make it as a writer as their are different ways to say I love you.
To make it as a writer you need a certain set of qualities. After that point it just depends on what you consider "making it" as a writer is.
The first quality is wanting to writer. There are millions of people out there who want to have written, but few who actually love to get down in the trenches are slug it out word for word. There are days when I wish I had already written so I can get on to other activities through the day, but you get that with any job from time to time. You have to have the writing bug in you and you need to write every day.
Second, you have to want to get better at your writing. Anyone can write down a sentence, but it takes a writer to craft that sentence into a word painting. Something that a reader can indentify with and be able to say, "Ah, yes. I know what that is like."
Finally, it takes commitment. Writing is not a career for those who have to be told what to do all the time. Quite often it takes a person who can motivate themselves to stare at the computer and not wince, but also someone who can handle working in a secluded evironment day in and day out. Unless you are one of the few that thrive on chaos all around them while writing, then you should consider this profession to be a lonely one.
These are just a few small details to the writing profession that often get overlooked. Take some time to think about what type of writer you want to be and what it means to you to be successful at it.