Feeling like the progress on your novel has stalled? That draft feel like it’s collecting dust as it sits on your hard drive, unopened for months? Worry not! Many novels that have been immortalized in literary history took quite some time to write from start to finish. At the Huffington Post, Claire Fallon shares a handy chart exploring the writing times of the world’s most popular books.
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