I once read that an author was working on a book and a ranchhand

I'm pretty sure As I Lay Dying was written over the course of two months when Faulkner got back from his job at a steel mill or something

>>8755224
I think someone on lit posted about this story...it might have been Steinbeck writing OMAM...but the story was basically that the novel was destroyed and they got drunk and rewrote the whole thing overnight. Might have been hemingway or conrad? Maybe Twain?

>>8755221
That was Kafka. His manuscripts were partially saved from the flames by his best friend, Max Brot.
>>8755224
Most of his oeuvre was written late at night, after working all day as a fabric salesman and tending for his bedridden father, to whom he was tremendously attached.

>>8755699
That ranchhand was a long way from home

I think it was Carlyle you're thinking of. John Stuart Mill's maid threw his manuscript about the French Revolution in the fire and Carlyle had to rewrite the entire from scratch.

It's easy to verify when and how a book was written, especially in the age before computers.

>>8755699
Faulkner has stated many times that writing early in the morning is best