past simple and past continuous

Two years later it ________a prize for best novel.

Beth __________at school when she __________ her first novel.

In 2018 a TV company____________her first novel into a film.

She ___________ two more books while she ___________ a course in university.

She soon _____________ that a lot of young people ___________ her story.

She __________ her book online while she __________ in her bedroom at home.