The Business of Writing

I have just passed a significant milestone: at the very tail end of my 11th year of “taking my writing seriously” I have finally turned a profit.
This does not mean I have earned more than I spent in 2013 (although I did) but, even more significantly, it means I have earned, over the past 11 years, more money writing than I have spent on writing during that same period.
It was not an easy hill to climb. Although I always say that taking up the hobby of writing is a sweet deal because it is dead...