When, after many attempts, I wrote the first SF&F story that I thought might be saleable, I decided that I wasn't going to try publishing it until I could write

When, after many attempts, I wrote the first SF&F story that I thought might be saleable, I decided that I wasn't going to try publishing it until I could write what I thought were good stories on a routine basis. I didn't ever want to be a one-hit wonder, even to the extent of only having one published SF&F story.