I’m fifteen years into my writing career, and this year I felt all the feelings

I finished (and promptly submitted) my first short story on December 20th, 2003, which means that today is the end of my fifteenth year attempting to make a go of this writing thing.

Writing-wise, it hasn't been a bad year. I sold my book last December, and this year I've been making revisions to it. I also wrote the first draft of a new novel. I wrote f…