The best writing café is crowded enough to allow you blend in, but not too crowded that you have to share a table with someone else.” You don’t have to make your own coffee, you don’t have to feel like you’re in solitary confinement and if you have writers block, you can get up and walk to the next café while giving your batteries time to recharge and brain time to think. “It’s no secret that the best place to write, in my opinion, is in a café. When asked the best place to write in this interview Rowling said: Rowling wrote in many of Edinburgh’s cafés and coffee houses with her sleeping daughter at her side. She had no idea that she would become one of the best-selling British authors of all time! Her intention was to become a school teacher as she had no idea whether she’d be able to sell her book or not. She went on welfare, worked on the book, sought treatment for depression, and completed a training program as a teacher. It was a rough time in Rowling’s life with the failed marriage, loss of her mother, a young daughter to take care of, and little money. She chose Edinburgh as that was where her sister and brother-in-law were living. She left her Portuguese husband in 1993 (divorcing in 1995) and headed to Edinburgh Scotland with her baby daughter and the first three drafted chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In Porto, she worked, wrote, got married, and had a daughter Jessica. In 1991, she moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English following the death of her mother and the loss of her office job in Manchester.
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She saw it as a book series from the start and was obviously a woman with both imagination and ambition! She soon sketched out a rough plan for a 7-book series featuring a boy wizard. Rowling, had the inspiration for what would become the Harry Potter series during a train ride from Manchester to London in 1990. Rowling, Harry Potter, and Edinburghīefore listing the places you can visit where Rowling wrote Harry Potter in Edinburgh, we’ll share a bit of background about J.K.