Charles Dickens and His Writing Process

I am currently reading Great Expectations and at the same time trying to write a novel myself during National Novel Writing Month. Reading, while writing, gives me such a greater appreciation of the craft of writing, and the craft of published writers.

I wonder, then, what was Dickens's writing process like....So here's some digging.

E.B. White: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”