I originally wrote this shortly after the birth of my second sleep thief. Sleep-deprived and on the verge of madness, I had convinced myself that despite the lack of sleep, time and brain power, I could definitely be the next JK Rowling. Predictably, it did not happen.
I recently read that JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book in a café while her baby slept next to her in a pram.
Well, I have a baby and a pram. I could do it too…couldn’t I?
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I’d read your stuff over JK Rowling any day! Plus I don’t think she really exists. I think the Harry Potter industry made her up to make us feel bad about ourselves while they had a team of baby-less geniuses in a beautiful room filled with beanbags, cake and coffee write the books themselves. Come on really, a woman with a baby write all those books with intricate plots and creative stories? Stuff that even as a reader I don’t fully understand? Gimme a break. She’s like Santa or the Easter Bunny… Wonderful to believe in but not really true. (Don’t try to confirm this information. Google won’t give you anything.)
Ha I have always suspected she is too good to be true…or maybe she is just much more brilliant than the rest of us (i bet her baby slept though- Potter is not the work of a sleep-deprived mind- or maybe that is the secret to success)!!