Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — Trollope at Work. [ARTICLE]

Trollope at Work.

It was the customary habit of Anthimy ’Trollope, perhaps the most methodical of well-known English novelists, to always write with his watch open on his desk. When at work he drilled himself into the practice of writing 250 words every quarter of an hour-and placed his watch before him -to—make sure of completing his thousand words an hour. He pooh-poohed the idea of waiting for inspiration and punctually produced his copy with the regularity of clockwork whatever his mood at the moment. He made a calculation to show that iu this way, by working at his desk only three hours daily, he could write ten: pages of an ordinary novel a day and finish three novels comfortably each year. Trollope could also write as easily In rail-

way carriages while, traveling as at his desk, and, as a matter of fact, composed most of “Barchester Towers,” generally considered to be his best novel, in this way.