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Steinbeck kept track of things while writing East of Eden, and this is the record: • Eleven years of mental gestation • One year of uninterrupted writing • 25 dozen pencils • Approximately three dozen reams of paper • 350,000 words (before cutting) • About 75,000 words in his work-in-progress journal • And a rock-hard callus on the middle finger of the writer’s right hand. from Steinbeck.org

Steinbeck kept track of things while writing East of Eden, and this is the record:

• Eleven years of mental gestation
• One year of uninterrupted writing
• 25 dozen pencils
• Approximately three dozen reams of paper
• 350,000 words (before cutting)
• About 75,000 words in his work-in-progress journal
• And a rock-hard callus on the middle finger of the writer’s right hand.

from Steinbeck.org

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