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How did Dickens write his books? With a pen and paper. Duh. Okay, maybe that's not what that question means. Let's check out the video and find out.
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickins how did chickens right
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his books Ah la shmoop so he absolutely wrote them
- 00:14
as he went along famously chickens was always flying on
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the seat of his pants In fact he would often
- 00:21
write novel simultaneous and that he'd be coming out with
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one chapter over here and coming out the next chapter
- 00:26
of the next book over here at the same time
- 00:28
i mean dickens himself as a parent had an enormous
- 00:31
family think he had ten children s a little very
- 00:34
large family on how to sport mall and again kind
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of famously or infamously he and his wife did not
- 00:40
get along a cz children did not end up being
- 00:43
a successful as he would've liked so we couldn't exactly
- 00:47
depend on them to kind of keep the household running
- 00:50
that was all up to him So for example the
- 00:52
christmas carol was written in very dire straits dickinson wass
- 00:58
on the verge of debt and really had to very
- 01:01
quickly raise a ton of money So in a way
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the christmas carol was a sort of invention of his
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to get amount of that scrape that's one of the
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reasons why it's a novella short Because he had to
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get it out very quickly in order to make the
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money desperately need it So he's definitely writing as he
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went along And really not able to write too far
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ahead for these financial reasons How did dickens approach writing
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What financial problem was always looming over dickins Shmoop dot 00:01:31.661 --> [endTime] com slash finance somebody send diggins a lake
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