10 simple tips to fight writer’s block

I guess by now the whole world knows that J.K. Rowling was a single mother on benefits when she wrote the first Harry Potter book, the series that would later turn her into a billionaire. But did you know that in those early days she would bundle up her daughter into a stroller and settle down at a cafe, Nicolson’s in Edinburgh, to write all day long? Over endless cups of espresso and glasses of water – all that she could afford at the time – and with her daughter asleep beside her, she would write the words that would resound across the world in the years to come.