18th July 2006, 2:20 PM
And it's taken me years of failed attempts at writing to get where I am right now, not to mention numerous [much shorter] test stories to get my writing ability up to a high enough level to write something worthwhile and of suitable length. I've spent over two years working on this project and gone through numerous edits and rewrites. You don't become a writer overnight.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.