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Rowling
- Biography
 Joanna
Kathleen Rowling first starting writing when she was as young
as 12 years old. She wrote many stories as a child. One of the
stories, that was mentioned in an interview, was about seven
cursed diamonds. She said that no one would be finding it in
a bookstore anytime soon. Part of her inspiration for writing
Harry Potter, came from her childhood friend, Ian Potter. She
said that some of the characters in the book, like Ron, Hermoine,
and Professor Lockhart related to real-life people she knew.
Ron was like a boy she use to know as a child, Hermoine can
relate to herself, and Lockhart related to someone who was always
proud of whatever they took credit for. In the beginning, she
wrote the beginnings of Harry Potter in a local café.
During that time, she was a single mother and a teacher, working
hard to support herself and daughter. The early plannings of
the characters, names, etc., took atleast 5 years, according
to JKR. When she writes one Harry Potter book, she writes the
others at the same time! There are many details that she has
to pay attention to and not forget. It's not an easy job! She
writes a lot of pages each day; Goblet of Fire is 734 pages,
the longest book yet! She also said in an interview, that when
she writes, the ideas either come flying out her hand and onto
the paper, or sometimes she feels as if her "brain was
bleeding", because sometimes her ideas may be slow, and
she doodles on the paper from blank thought. Eventually all
the work paid off, when she was awarded by the Scottish Arts
Council, which entitled her to finish her book. Her tremendous
accomplishments have earned her a British Book Awards Children's
Book of the Year, as well as the Smarties Prize. She currently
lives in Edinburgh with her daughter, Jessica. |
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