Success story of Joanne Rowling

 Hello friends 👋 today's story is about a author of Herry Potter Book. Her named is Joanne Rowling or J.K.Rowling. Her biography is very inspiring to all of us. 

So let's start the story.

Long time ago, there was a beautiful girl born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, United Kingdom. She was very intelligent girl.

When she was six years old, she wrote her first story. A story about a little rabbit. Her mother used to love her writing. And often used to smile and listen to her daughter tell a story. The little girl dreamt of becoming a writer one day. 

But her father told her, that writing will never pay for the bills. Don't even think about it. So after school she applied to the Oxford University, but was rejected. They said that she was not good enough. Gradually, time went on, she graduated, took smaller jobs.

Her dream of becoming a writer was now far away. But one day, four hour delayed train journey, she got an idea for a book. She went home and started scribbling the story. She felt happy, doing what she loved the most, writing. Few months later, when the world was celebrating New Year's Eve. She was still writing her book and watching the fireworks outside. 

That day she got a call that her mother has passed away. That was the most painful day of her life, she felt devastated. She wanted to tell her mother about the book, she was writing. But now she can't. Heartbroken, she moved to a different country to start a new life. 

But after eighteen months, when she came back, her whole world was now different. She was now divorced, jobless and all alone with her little daughter. She had no money and a child to take care off. She tried getting a new job but was not able to find any. She took loan from friends, signed up for welfare benefits, just to survive. She felt as if her life was over, she got depressed. 

There were days when she thought, she would better die. That's when she said to herself, the hard times will pass, I just have to survive. Having no other option she began seriously writing her book. While also taking care of her little girl. She used to write in cafes, at home, any place, where she could get her daughter to fall  asleep. People made fun of her, saying she is spoiling the life of her little kid. What will she gain by writing a stupid book? There were days she too saw herself as a failure. But she again said to herself, these bad times will pass, I just have to survive. A year later, she completed her first book.

She got very happy, hoping now it was the time for things to become better but happiness was still far away. She submitted her book to different publishing houses , but all rejected it. Twelve publishing houses rejected her manuscript. She was told, she was not good enough. She should first take a writing course and then rewrite the whole book. With each rejection , her dream of getting the book published slowly was slipping away. She felt the saddest, felt it was time to finally give up.

But when all appeared lost, that's when the destiny smiled  at her. Eight year old daughter of a publisher, read her book and loved it. Seeing his daughter's response, the publisher decided to release  her book and gave her 1500 pound advance. She had tears in her eyes. Finally her dream of publishing a book was  going to come true. But she was told by the publisher to find another job. As children's books don't make much money.

Now about twenty two years after that first book release. That children's book, which was  told that it will not sell much is now the  best selling book series in history. And the girl who was considered poor and a failure became the world's first author to earn over a billion dollars. And the book which was rejected 12 times was Harry Potter. 

In this way this story of J.k Rowling tells us that life is not one long happy journey. We all face good and bad times. Success is about  surviving the hard times. When things  appear the hardest because who knows, when destiny will finally smile at you. 

Thank you all.....