The Footsteps of Rowling
Mar. 3rd, 2018 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starfishstarI love Edinburgh for lots of reasons, but one pretty cool thing is how it's chock full of Harry Potter references! Real-life places like the various cafés J.K. Rowling wrote in when she was drafting the first Harry Potter book, but also semi-wizarding-world places like the curving street that's thought to have inspired Diagon Alley and the school that was, maybe, the visual model for Hogwarts.
When I first visited Edinburgh (7 years ago!) I made a point of finding out where J. K. Rowling used to write, and spending an afternoon there, writing. And on this visit, of course, I've come here again. So I am writing to you from one of the places where JKR wrote Harry Potter. It's pretty silly how happy this makes me...but it makes me really, really happy.
When I was here 7 years ago:
That brings back memories! That's when I had my little, very portable netbook, and I was traveling a ton and doing my translation work from all different countries. (In that year alone – 2011, which was definitely the peak of my "working from everywhere" phase – I think I worked from England, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, the US, Spain, Scotland, as well as of course various parts of Germany, and possibly also the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. Ah, my youth!) ;-)
I remember sitting in front of that very window, thinking how I'd basically arrived at a point where the whole world could be my "office," and feeling so fortunate.
And here now:
When I first visited Edinburgh (7 years ago!) I made a point of finding out where J. K. Rowling used to write, and spending an afternoon there, writing. And on this visit, of course, I've come here again. So I am writing to you from one of the places where JKR wrote Harry Potter. It's pretty silly how happy this makes me...but it makes me really, really happy.
When I was here 7 years ago:
That brings back memories! That's when I had my little, very portable netbook, and I was traveling a ton and doing my translation work from all different countries. (In that year alone – 2011, which was definitely the peak of my "working from everywhere" phase – I think I worked from England, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, the US, Spain, Scotland, as well as of course various parts of Germany, and possibly also the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. Ah, my youth!) ;-)
I remember sitting in front of that very window, thinking how I'd basically arrived at a point where the whole world could be my "office," and feeling so fortunate.
And here now:
