Sorry to hear it mighty, but glad you're on the writer's track! The energy you're talking about is a good thing, and I hope it carries you far.
On a personal note, I've updated status to 'working student' and have an entire book nearly up to 'first complete edited draft'. It even has a complete prequel stewing. At first I tried the 'pre-plot' method, but it just didn't work for me. The story always ended up shucking my plans, because the plan was either too detailed or too broad. What I ended up with was a bunch of disconnected, sequential but not time-specific scenes.
So I worked with that. I started focusing on the scene, not bothering to analyze what I was writing until it was down. I also mixed in writing completely unrelated during the time: fan-fiction, writing exercises, essays. This what a lot better than brain-storming a plot first, because as I was writing pieces fell together unconsciously. Taking the sequences I was forming unintentionally, I worked scenes formerly with no relation into the thread of a cohesive story. So now I've got a complete book and prequel [or I guess a dulogy if I do them both] with an undefined future for if things work out.
I've already have some pre-readers to help me out and am reseraching publishing. So in the words of Dogbert, I WOULD wish you all luck..."but wouldn't that leave less luck for me?"
Hope all the rest of you are doing well in your aspirations!
