JK Rowling Dishes Valuable Advice To Aspiring Writers On Twitter

Listen up writers! “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has some valuable advice for aspiring authors around the world: Write that book, even if you think nobody will watch, read or listen to it. Write it anyway.

On Monday, Rowling, who also writes crime novels featuring Cormoran Strike under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, took to Twitter to give writers dreaming of becoming novelists some much-needed guidance. Her series of advice came after she retweeted a tweet by a writer, Beauty Jackson. which urged writers to finish their work even if they believe no one will read it.

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The “Harry Potter” scribe then said that even if a novel doesn’t find an audience, it will teach the them many things that they may not have learned any other way. For starters, writers learn discipline. Rowling informed aspiring novelists that finishing a piece of work will change their status from someone thinking of or trying to write a novel to someone who actually did it.

Secondly, it empowers writers to try writing another novel. She insisted that no one should quit what they’re doing out of fear of rejection.

Lastly, the 51-year-old screenwriter told her followers that just because a novel doesn’t find an audience doesn’t mean it’s bad work. She also pointed out that it isn’t necessary that a writer’s first novel will be a hit. In fact, it might be the fifth or third or fourth novel that wins an audience. Still, Rowling encouraged budding writers to finish their piece of creative work regardless of their fears and apprehensions.

Rowling also retweeted another tweet by Jackson in which she revealed that she works as a legal secretary. However, she has been writing for her entire life.

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