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Our book club's big fight over a single line in 'The Great Gatsby'
We were discussing chapter three last week and someone pointed out that Fitzgerald wrote the entire novel in about six months. I looked it up and it's true, he finished the first draft by October 1924 while living in France. It just blew my mind that something we've picked apart for hours was written so fast. Has your club ever gotten stuck on a random fact about how a book was made?
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vera_campbell11h ago
He probably wrote hungover.
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olivia_bailey9h ago
Fitzgerald actually did a ton of rewriting after that first draft, like five sets of proofs. I don't buy the hungover idea from @vera_campbell, that level of polish takes real focus. It just shows how a fast start doesn't mean the work was easy.
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