50 Stories sold

A reader's note:

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E's husband here. The Traceless Warrior introduced me to your blog. Anyway, just one question about the story/week. Is the process dependent on getting all of those 50 or so stories sold, or just out there in circulation?

Thanks for the great site!
Don
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Well, Don--if you sell fifty stories, I'd say you are all the way to pro land!  What I'm marking out here is not a destination, but a path.  Write stories, finish stories, send them out for publication, move on to the next story.  By the time you've sold, say...five of them, you'll be a very different writer than you  are today, and ready to move to the next level!

Steve