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Georges Simenon
By John Simenon
28 February 2020
A typical novel, 10 chapters long, would take my father 10 days to write
In general, the notes were not that detailed, as they usually fitted on the back of an A4 yellow envelope. They consisted mostly of lists of names, some biographical elements about the characters, rough sketches of a few locations, and that was about it. A typical novel, 10 chapters long, would take my father 10 days to write, one chapter a day. According to his diaries, he did interrupt a few novels for health reasons, but only for one or two days, and that was before returning to Europe in 1955. After that, I don’t recall any interruption. As for the fact that he became irritable just before and after a novel, it may have been true, but he certainly didn’t show it.
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