If you want to be a writer you've picked the best and worst of the arts. The best of the arts because, face it, the technology needed to pursue your art is pretty simple.
Writing is cheap.
You can do it with a pad of paper and a ballpoint pen if you have to, and then find some starving college student to type it up for you. On the other hand, everybody has the basic skills needed to be a writer. We all compose language every day. Musicians spend a long time learning to play someone elses compositions before they ever learn to compose their own, but we are all composing sentances from the time we can talk. So everybody's got what they need.