@rsalc1

I would say first start off with the 40 or so most common radicals. Since progression in writing will lag far behind speaking, listening and reading, you should treat this as a separate entity entirely. Spend a lot of time at first memorizing the radicals and their stroke order.

In University Chinese101, Chinese teachers will spend the first 2 days on radicals, and then move straight into writing characters alongside all the other course material. This leaves no time to build the strong foundational understanding of what characters are.

While studying the radicals it is important to simultaneously learn the stroke order. There are only 9 basic rules, that are fairly easy to internalize. You can find a list of the rules on this Wikipedia Page

Focus- Radicals + Stroke order= Solid Foundation

Then the rest is up to you.