Writers, though filled with passion, must also be thick skinned and a little daring—if not outright brave.
In a Twitter dialogue with fans and other authors, J.K. Rowling, of “Harry Potter” fame, said that she kept her first rejection letter on a wall in her home for motivation.
I pinned my 1st rejection letter to my kitchen wall because it gave me something in common with all my fave writers! https://t.co/ZmGNWDdF7x
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2016
“Robert Galbraith” is one of Rowling’s pen names, under which she published the thriller “The Cuckcoo’s Calling. On choosing to write under a pseudonym, Rowling remarks that she desired “to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback“ for her venture into the crime mystery genre.
