I thought about it so many times I lost count. My dream is writing for a living, and I'm currently writing the first draft of a novel. I'm about 1/5 of the way

I thought about it so many times I lost count. My dream is writing for a living, and I'm currently writing the first draft of a novel. I'm about 1/5 of the way there, began a couple of weeks ago. I've tried a few other times, but couldn't get past the first few chapters. I'm now at 18k words and going strong, I hope this will be the one.