when did jk rowling begin to write?
J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London Kingâs Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper. She arrived in Edinburgh in 1993 with three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopherâs Stone in her suitcase.