J.K. Rowling’s Persistence in Writing Harry Potter

Few traits are more praiseworthy than persistency. Persistency requires riding past the wave of motivation and surviving the travails that action entails. Very few people possesses such grace. Today, I stumbled upon one such example: J.K. Rowling, the author who gave us Harry Potter.

The idea to write Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. One year later, she started working on the first book in her series (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). The book took 6 years to complete. During his time, she met several roadblocks, which surmounted until she finished the book.

Her roadblocks were not minor; they included the death of mother, dozen publisher rejections of her book, and many others. And, yet she persisted and gave us Harry Potter. Harry Potter became so colossal that it made J.K. Rowling became the first person ever to become a billionaire by writing. Persistency works.