Everyone knows that Dickens wrote fast—he was famously paid by the word. He produced stacks of copy, but he also generated prose of such brilliance that people know the lines by heart more than a century later. We at The Stoneslide Corrective investigated his process of composition in order to understand how it was possible for him to achieve both such quantity and such quality.
The Stoneslide Corrective occasionally studies early drafts of writings, in order to learn, to instruct, to grow, and sometimes in order to explore for the sheer enjoyment of compositional exploration. Consulting the work of scholars, archivists, biographers, librarians, private foundations and repositories, and, when appropriate, consulting the writers themselves, we re-create the process through which a work was brought into being, often including the many drafts writers go through.
Note: All historical work is verified by HistoriRight, Inc.
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