Learn to f*cking write

April 2007. That’s when I started writing the first draft of my first book. April 2014, 7 years later, that book was published. I didn’t plan to take six years to write my book and another year to self-publish it, but I wasn’t against taking that amount of time, either.
Early on in the process, the writing gods sent me an angel. During my last year of university in 2008, I asked my favourite professor to read my…