The writing career roller coaster

I've been thinking about my career alot as I near my 40th birthday next year. For the first time since I started doing this, I finally feel like I'm in a good place. It might not last, but it finally feels possible that this could be a long-term career for me.

However, it took literally until last year for me to feel that way, after 15 years doing creative work.

It's been a wild roller coaster of a ride that often felt like it was going to pop off from the tracks, and other times seemed that there were no tracks at all.

I know many of you are struggling through that "trough of obscurity", wondering if there will ever be a light on the other side, so I thought I would show you all the ups and downs of my own career, as best as I can remember them.

Here is a short rundown of the biggest "hits and misses" of my career up until this point, starting all the way back when I was 18, through today. I tried my best to get the dates right, but I may have misremembered dates.

As you will see, there w…