[Commonmind]

I was published several times while I was younger, both by submission and as a result of winning competitions. I do not live off my writing, in any way; I lost interest in writing after college as I was running several businesses and simply didn't have the time or energy to invest in the creative process, so I ended up putting down most of the projects I was working on at the time and only picked them back up these past few years.

Of the few of books I've actually finished, the average completion time was 1.5 years. Nothing I plan on sending out for publication, however, as some of them are more personal diatribes and fictional doodles than anything worthy of the bookshelf. My current work has taken my partner and I about a year to reach what we assume is the halfway point -- so in another year and some change we'll likely have a finished novel.