Clarionniversary, Mega-Three-Year Edition

Three years ago, I walked out of Clarion and called a mulligan on two decades of bad writing.  I had, I said, never written a thing before this day, at least not one that counted.  And so I started clear.
I use these anniversaries to look over what I’ve done since then – both to remind myself of what I’ve accomplished, and to serve as a showcase to others as to the kind of effort it takes for a mediocre-to-good author like myself to scrape the bottom layers of what one might call “a professional” career.  (Not that I’m ashamed of what I’ve done – I’m quite proud – but I’m nowhere near a household name, and have been nominated for no awards.)
This is what it takes.  At least for me.
In three years:

• 51 stories started
• 46 stories completed
• 32 stories final-drafted and submitted to at least one market
• 172 rejections (or, on average, one rejection every six days for the past three years)
  
• 19 stories sold
• …6 to “professional” markets
• 12 stories published
• 3 stories made into audio productions
• 6 stories retired when I realize I’d be embarrassed if I got them published
• 1 novel written and completed
• 1 old novel read for notes and revision

There are geniuses out there.  For the rest of us, it’s a lot of hard work.