You'll need plenty of resources and cash for this. First go to The Sprawl, The Ruins, The Graveyard, and/or [forgot 4th newbie zone]. Do the quests, hunt the mobs, get your levels, sell the sellable loot for cash, and collect every resource you can get your paws on. Gathering will probably go up the fastest, fishing the slowest, unless you make an effort to concentrate on fishing.
Why go through all this? You need to raise your gathering/mining/foresting/trapping/fishing skills to 40 to be able to gather the tier II raw materials in the commonlands.
Don't worry if folks share the nodes, you share the ones they're on too.
Try to find a circular path you can run, once you start finding it hard to find fights for exp.
The alternative to all this is to buy the raw materials. I've seen some ridiculous prices. 1sp for severed elm. It takes at least 2 elm and 2 roots to make a single scroll. That's 4sp in resources if you buy at 1sp each. Then you have to sell the scroll for 5sp to make a small profit. But the market for scrolls is saturated by idiots making 30 of the same scroll, instead of making 3 each of ten different ones. Bottom line is that newbie scrolls (App III versions of the 1-10lvl spells) are selling for 2-5sp each. Better to gather your own raw materials, then you only have to buy liquid and fuels.
Also, try all the skills. Learn how to use the crafting skills to counter ill effects. At the higher levels the subclasses are highly interdependent, but when you're starting you can make all the ingredients for your scroll/backpack/armor/furniture, whatever. If you practice all the skills, you can continue this for a bit, but it gets hard to do on tier II stuff. From your practice you will get an idea which class/subclass you want to pursue, if you don't already know.