Leading the way in The Arts: “By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.” - J.K. Rowling said, the award winning writer with book translated into over 70 million languages, over 450 million book copies sold and by day 99 of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 it had racked in over 380 million views. Writing the phenomenon that was Harry potter wasn't as easy as it seemed, it took a lot of grit, courage and hope but not only that it would take many, many years. J.K. Rowling began writing the series back in 1990 unfortunately, later that year Rowling's mother died, completely halting her writing. Instead of picking back up her book after the grieving period, she fell into a horrible depression, getting nothing accomplished in her series at that time. Realising she needed to keep working on her career before she ran out of money and hoping it would help her depression, she took a job as an English teacher in Portugal for a year. In this year she had planned to finish the first Harry Potter book and if she was lucky she would start on the next before she headed back home. Sadly, this did not happen. …show more content…
This increased her level of depression by a significant amount, living off meagre unemployment benefits, she managed to find time to continue to write her book when her child slept. Through all this hardship she found sanctuary in writing, finding some sort of joy in the little, this helped her through her depression, knowing she had lost it all and there was nowhere left to full, made her come to the realisation that there wasn't anything left to be afraid