who will be published?

When I was in my first real writing group as an adult, I remember being embarrassed that I always had a manuscript to be read, and that the others in the group would complain a bit about how rough my manuscripts were. But I also remember clearly one of them shaking his head and saying, but you know, Mette is the one who is probably going to end up getting published out of all of us. Because I wrote a lot. I needed to write.

He was right.

None of the others in that group have ended up being p...