I started writing (as an adult, anyway, coming back from the decade-long intermission) in May 2005. That makes 2006 my first full year of writing.

So, writing-related stats:

In 2006, I...

*Sold 3 stories to various small venues,

*Earned a grand combined total writing paycheck of $40 and a bag of books,

*Got relatively positive, peronalized close-but-no-cigar rejections from Strange Horizons, Black Gate, Futurismic, Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine and Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest,

*Got, on the other hand, truly enormous numbers of regular old this-didn't-grab-me form rejections from, well, everywhere,

*Went to WisCon and World Fantasy, participating at the fomer in the one-day writers' workshop with Barth Anderson,

*Moved to Miami, where I met Adam-Troy Castro and other cool people and hooked up with the SFSFS (South Florida Science Fiction Society) writers' group,

*Participated in the fall Speculative Literature Foundation Mentorship Program with Ben Rosenbaum,

*Registered for NaNoWriMo but spectacularly failed to even come close to the desired word count,

*Started approximately, oh, I don't know, ninety million or so stories that stalled after the first couple of pages, or even the first couple of paragraphs,

*Finished 15 stories, including my 5 Clarion stories, and

*Went to Clarion West.