Veronica Roth's New Novel To Be Set in Space, Author Gives Advice to Aspiring Writers

The author of the bestselling Divergent series Veronica Roth, 26 is planning to write a new book series soon. This time, her story will be set in space.

Roth told The Daily Northwestern that she will start writing again after the second part of Allegiant, which is the third book of her Divergent series is finally released on cinemas.

She hopes to complete her new books, which will take inspiration from Star Wars, sometime in 2017.

"It's set in space and it's about a young man who unites with someone who's supposed to be his enemy to get revenge," she revealed.

Roth also shared some advice to aspiring writers as she goes back to writing novels. She said that the creative process of writing is actually far more important than the results. She quoted excerpts from Amy Poehler's book Yes Please, which stresses the "passion about the creative act" but feeling "ambivalence about the results of your work."

She prepared all writers that there will always be people who will not like their work, but that's okay, she said.

"You don't need to take to heart every single person's reaction," Roth said. "Some people are going to like it, and some people are going to not like it."

This message is particularly important to college students, especially since they are weighed down by the prospects of the future.

"If you can let writing carry through good times and bad times, you have a much higher likelihood of succeeding in the industry, because you'll be able to take criticism and you'll be able to take rejection because you know that you'll still be able to write at the end of the day," she said.

When she was in college, the young author learned how to take things in stride but still "go after the things that I want and not to wait until someone tells me how to do them."

She also learned about the importance of "being comfortable with a lot of people around you being better than you," because Roth said that there will always be people who are way more superior mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

She added that there is nothing wrong with acknowledging and coming to terms with that fact, since it is only then that people can learn how to take inspiration and be motivated to do better.

"Just because someone is more skilled than you, doesn't mean that you don't have value," Roth said. "It's okay to be in the world and to look up to people."