When I started writing my first novel I had no idea what I was doing. You know the cliché about pantsing vs. plotting? Well, I’m a pantser in almost every aspect of my life. Meaning, I hadn’t given a single thought about how I wanted to present this thing to the world before I began writing. Very quickly, I realized that worrying about, commenting on, and fretting over publishing takes up a lot of writers’ time and energy. At least, the ones I follow on social media. Many factors go into how and why authors choose their publishing path. So…