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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

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as he went along famously chickens was always flying on

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the seat of his pants In fact he would often

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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

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of the next book over here at the same time

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i mean dickens himself as a parent had an enormous

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family think he had ten children s a little very

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large family on how to sport mall and again kind

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of famously or infamously he and his wife did not

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get along a cz children did not end up being

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a successful as he would've liked so we couldn't exactly

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depend on them to kind of keep the household running

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that was all up to him So for example the

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christmas carol was written in very dire straits dickinson wass

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on the verge of debt and really had to very

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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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