What I Learned In My First Year As A Full-Time Writer

[Note: I lost all the wonderful comments on this post in a website transfer. Sorry, guys!] I was inspired to do this post by Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn, who always does a year-end post on her business goals and accomplishments. Mostly this post is meant to create accountability and a place for reflection for me, but I also offer it publicly in the spirit of helping other writers out. There's so much writing advice out there, and so much of it is fantastic – but it doesn't all apply to writers who are just getting out the starting gate.…