Joanne Rowling Studied French in the university and after her graduation, was working as office secretary and she was doing translation work. When she was working in the office, she continued to type up stories on computer when no one was looking. She did not pay much attention in office meeting because she was busy scribbling some stories or choosing proper names for the characters of that story.
She soon got fed up with the secretary work that she was doing and quit her job and moved to Portugal and taught English to students there. She met a Portuguese television journalist there and married to him and gave birth to a daughter. In about 18 months she separated and divorced from her husband and came back to England. In Portugal, she started writing on the Harry Potter novel and had written hundreds of pages about the novel there.
Once back in England, she did not have any job and was living on government welfare for a couple of years and her daily routine was to visit different cafe and keep writing the book.
Since she was so poor that she could not afford to photocopy different versions of the script to send to publishers, she somehow managed to get hold of an old type writer and manually typed each version of approx 90,000 word novel. Joanne Rowling was a single mother living on welfare in England and could barely afford to feed her baby girl. She was living in a mediocre apartment and was jobless, penniless and was suffering from depression and even considered suicide.
In 1995, she finished writing her first book Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone but that book was rejected by a dozens of publishers who did not think that a book like this can make money in a very competitive "children books" niche. She finally managed to convince a small London publisher who gave it a second chance after CEO's eight year old daughter fell in love with Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone script. She secured 2500 pounds advance for her effort.
Her first book was published in 1997 and by 1999, over 300,000 copies of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone were sold in England and it won numerous awards and rest is history.
If a single mother who was suffering from depression and was considering suicide can turn around her life by just keep on writing her book even when she had no idea if it was going to be accepted by a publisher, why can't we keep focusing on our goal and keep working towards it even when we don't don't know if we are going to make it? The key to success of J K Rowling was that even when she was passing through bad time and had no idea what else to do, she kept on working on one thing that she knew she can do which was writing!
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