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Nitpicking: Rowling was separated from her first husband, and had one child, at the time she finished (not started) the first HP novel in Edinburgh.
To the topic: Bettybot brings up a very good point, which is reiterated in that book I'm reading (see previous page; I REALLY recommend it highly). I keep seeing it on this forum as well: People who come in here wanting to write and are completely unaware of what it takes to get legitimately published.
In that book Janet Fitch (author of White Oleander, which was an Oprah's Book Club pick) says, and I'm paraphrasing: For every author who goes to his/her mailbox and celebrates, there are a hundred authors who go to their mailboxes and start to cry.
Seriously...if you (using the general "you" here) can't handle rejection, don't get into this business.
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you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
from "Berryman," W.S. Merwin
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