I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep­down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.

　　It takes confidence to make a new start－there’s a dark period in­between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.”My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.

　　The I met an agent(代理商)who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.

　　The next problem was finding a publisher. After two­and­a­half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal－that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.

　　It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck—of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there's no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同)of the publisher—to be a published writer—is unbelievably rewarding(有回报的)．

　　49. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

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