Hello 2015
I'm starting off the New Year with a very, very, very rough draft of my short story collection finally completed. The last story of the collection took me three years to write. I started over writing it four times as the first three attempts just didn't capture what I was hoping for. Months between starts and stops passed by. Then, recently, just before the end of the semester, as I was calculating grades for one of my classes, the way to write the story presented itself to me. I started writing it the first day of break. 
Today, putting the last period in place on that story was one of the most satisfying feelings I've ever experienced. I still have a lot of rewriting to do to get everything right, I still need to find someone who will read the entire manuscript and give honest, no-holding-back advice, and I definitely have a lot of leg work to do to find a publisher who is willing to give it a chance. But, the skeleton is in place.
For now, just for a little bit, I'm going to enjoy simply sitting here and looking at my first book-length manuscript.
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Funny how long it took me to write a simple answer to your simple question. My first thought was, "Why would anyone want to purchase it? Don't waste your money."
The facts are that I did pitch it a couple of times, an agent asked me to submit it to her at a conference two years ago, but I've been too lazy (it took 7 years and still needs a lot of revision) or scared (of failure? of success?) or satisfied (like a marathon, just finishing was a joy) to go further: lame excuses in the professional writing world, rationalizations, I know, but as a working man, they're plenty of justification for me :)
But lately the novel and some other stories have come to mind often. A new friend at church has done pretty well in the e-publishing world; perhaps her encouragement and your milestone are the push I need to get going again.