2. Early School Years
During her school years she was insecure.
Soon,writing stories became a passion for her.
She liked making stories with humor, funny
characters, and magic. Then in later school
years she did biographies about great people.
She admires the author Jessica Mitford
because she said his book “Hons and Rebels”
changed her life.
3. Later School Years
During her teen years her mother had a disease
called Multiple Sclerosis. It was painful for her
getting slowly but somewhat steadily weaker.
She ended her school years with high honors.
She knew exactly what she wanted to do with
her life but she had no idea where to begin.
4. University School Years.
At her University years she had folders full of small
stories yet she had no idea how to publish the
stories. At the age of 18 she had no definite ideas
for stories. She also did not have the courage to
carry out the ideas. For this reason she took her
parents advice and studied French and literature
at Exeter University. She graduated the school
with honors. She never stopped writing though
and tried to sumbit some of her stories. Yet she
felt to insecure.
5. Career.
Rowling went through a series of jobs. All of
them she found boring. She says “Whatever
job I had, I was writing like crazy.”, she
admitted. She wrote tons of short stories, all
ending up in her box of other short stories.
Her self esteem denied. After many jobs she
found a job as a office employer. She still
found her work boring, at her lunchtime she
was writing stories.
6. Idea Of Harry Potter.
On her way to London her train stopped. It was a problem
with the train which delayed the ride for several hours.
She was staring out the window when suddenly the
idea of Harry Potter came to her very clearly. After that
she took all of her free time into writing Harry Potter.
Completely filling her boxes with ideas and stories. She
felt very happy with the stories. Her mother died
however suddenly at the age of 45. She felt a feeling of
loss and regret. Her feeling of regret was because she
never told her about her story of Harry Potter. Soon she
lost her job and Harry Potter was her only motivation.
7. Turning Point.
In 1995 she finished her first book of Harry
Potter. It was called “Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone.” She sent copies of it to 2
agents to get published. Another good news
was that she received a grant from the
Scottish Arts College. This allowed her to
continue writing.
8. Published.
Great news came to her. Agent Christopher Little
wanted to see her book on full manuscript on
a very exclusive basis. Rowling says this was
the best new of her life. Her book was
rejected 12 times before it was finally I
published. It was published on 26 June 1997.
9. Success!
Publishers around the world started bidding for
the Harry Potter book. A unheard amount of
105,000$ was paid for the Harry Potter book.
Rowling said she was “Frosen in terror”. By the
end of 1999 Harry Potter books took three of
the top fur places in the bestsellers list.
10. Why she is a hero.
She is a hero because she taught people around
the world never to give up on a dream.
