Writing Jane Austen (2010)
“She plotted and planned and outlined, she drew up character biographies, and she produced ever more complicated diagrams with lines and coloured circles and arrows.
Sensing the futility of all this, she returned to the novels. She read the opening chapters and then flicked her way through the rest of the books, reminding herself of how the stories worked. She got up the site Maud and Henry had used to analyze Pride and Prejudice, and made an analysis of the other five novels.
How had Jane Auste...n planned and outlined her books? Georgina didn’t know enough about literature to have any idea how nineteenth-century novelists wrote. A first draft, then worked over in painstaking detail, crossing out a word here, inserting a phrase there? How did those writers manage without a word processor? It would have been bad enough in the days of the typewriter, having to type the whole thing out again; just imagine having to copy out one hundred and sixty thousand words by hand with that quill pen, making the fair version which would go to the printer.MoreLess
Sensing the futility of all this, she returned to the novels. She read the opening chapters and then flicked her way through the rest of the books, reminding herself of how the stories worked. She got up the site Maud and Henry had used to analyze Pride and Prejudice, and made an analysis of the other five novels.
How had Jane Auste...n planned and outlined her books? Georgina didn’t know enough about literature to have any idea how nineteenth-century novelists wrote. A first draft, then worked over in painstaking detail, crossing out a word here, inserting a phrase there? How did those writers manage without a word processor? It would have been bad enough in the days of the typewriter, having to type the whole thing out again; just imagine having to copy out one hundred and sixty thousand words by hand with that quill pen, making the fair version which would go to the printer.MoreLess
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