Five years turned into ten years and I kept going. Submitting my chapters once a month to my group. Being patient. Working on craft. Reading craft books. Going to conferences. Getting critiques from friends and family and betas. Reading. (God, reading in genre is such overlooked advice for writing.) Writing some more. Learning. And writing. The just write advice isn’t meant to be cliche. It’s because sometimes, it means picking up that laptop when life is hard and there’s no time. It means…