I want to be a published writer

 Since I moved here I have belonged to various writing groups.  I have written many short stories and some novels.  I have attended courses and done two correspondence courses but despite all that I have only won one local story competition, which was published in the local newspaper and an anthology, and had one story published in a short story magazine. I do wonder sometime if I am too old to hope for publication.  But what the hell I shall go on trying.

 It would of course help if I entered more competitions or tried harder to find an agent. But I have to believe that this is my year and I am going to make the effort to finish editing my latest novel and try to find somebody who believes in it enough to publish it.  I seem to remember that you can add pages to a blog so maybe I will make one for the beginning of my novel and see if anybody ever finds it and comments.  It would be so helpful if somebody did.