Now I need to figure out if I'm not published because I write like me, or because I don't write like me.
Damn.
Which is not to accuse you of laziness, but rather to assure you that persistence pays off.
I decided to become a writer one day in my college dorm, when I tossed aside a paperback sci-fi novel I'd paid good money for at the campus bookstore and thought "This is CRAP!" My next thought was "Heck, if that guy can get published, I'm a shoo-in."