For those of you who aspire to write .. be inspired.

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All of us here write.. but few of us have our sights set on Ebooks, novels, poetry books or may even be autobiographies. For those of us who have always dreamed of these but never really got to doing it here is a small inspiring story. We have all read the novels of AJ Cronin. He was a physician by profession. However, he developed Chronic gastric ulcer and need to take complete rest for six months. His rest in his Scottish farm house though initially was fun turned out to be "insufferable" in the long run. The author during this time had a story thought out in his mind, the story of a man's egotism and bitter pride. Nonetheless when he put pen to paper he realized that he had never written anything more than a prescription in the past ten years. He struggled to write 500 words a day at that time and he even threw his first draft away. He eventually finished his first novel The hatters castle in 1931 which was dramatized and later translated into 22 languages. The world lost a physician but gained a great novelist. He became a prolific writer after the success of his first novel. He won the National Book Award (U.S.), Favorite Novel of 1937, for 'The Citadel'. Some of his novel were made into moves and plays. Have you read any of Cronin's works? Which is your favorite novel?