Being a Beginner Week
My novel started out as a creative writing project for uni. The assignment was to write a multiple-chapter story. There were no restrictions. By the time the assignment was due, I had written the first three chapters of Black Velvet, and after receiving a glorious grade for it my teacher suggested I'd keep writing on it, because she thought it had potential, and before I knew it, it was a novel.
I never wrote this with the intention of having it published, so by the time I realised "I could publish this!" I had done zero preparation to do so. This presented me with a challenging set of new tasks, which in turn made me