There's only one - writing, and then a little reading to fuel the writing. Well, a lot of reading.
Got my first journal at age eight, and haven't stopped writing since.
Tried writing letters to people, but most people gave up with an apology that they weren't good letter-writers.
Email helped a little - written thousands of chatty emails to family and friends over the years. Wrote a short play in high school that one blackout completely erased - twenty pages. Never rewrote it. The loss was too great.
Poetry would emerge from my pen when the proper urge hit me, and still does from time to time, usually when something strikes me as tragic or funny.
I wrote online articles and blogs for pay for awhile - really terrible pay. Movie reviews. Facebook posts. Whatever.
Kept journaling, especially during the darkest years of my life. Can't really read those journals very easily now, but they helped me survive it.
Then one big idea decided it wanted to be a really bad screenplay, and then a halfway decent novel, and then a trilogy. Haven't finished beyond the first novel yet, but the rest of the story is still dancing around in my head, and has been for years.
Started writing short stories to kind of train myself better how to write, and that was fun. Up to 17 of them at current count - aiming for about 50 or so. I've lost more short stories than most people have ever written.
Currently I'm writing bios for the family history work I'm doing - little history stories from and about my family.
Who knows what's next? :-)
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