Roald Dahl's Daily Life
Roald Dahl had a very strict daily routine. He would eat breakfast in bed and open his post. At 10:30 a.m. he would walk through the garden to his writing hut and work until 12 p.m. when he went back to the house for lunch—typically, a gin and tonic followed by Norwegian prawns with mayonnaise and lettuce. At the end of every meal, Roald and his family had a chocolate bar chosen from a red plastic box.After a snooze, he would take a flask of tea back to the writing hut and work from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. He would be back at the house at exactly six o’ clock, ready for his dinner. Roald Dahl only wrote with the same pencil and that pencil had to be exactly same. It was a type of yellow pencil with an eraser on the top. Roald Dahl didn't want to leave his hut because he was very strict about his work, so he took six sharpened pencils with him. He would make sure six of those sharpened pencils were in a jar beside him. He made a very wise estimate about how many pencils he needed because the pencils lasted two hours before being sharpened again. Like his pencils, Roald was also very specific about the type of paper he wrote on. He only wrote on yellow American legal pad paper which was sent to him by New York. Loads of yellow paper was thrown away because Roald would make sure every word was correct. Because Roald Dahl wrote and rewrote, his waste paper bin would start to overflow. When that happened, he would burn all those papers in a bonfire. After Roald had finished a job of writing and rewriting, his work would be turned into a manuscript, sent to his secretary (Wendy) and the work would be published.
Roald Dahl had a very strict daily routine. He would eat breakfast in bed and open his post. At 10:30 a.m. he would walk through the garden to his writing hut and work until 12 p.m. when he went back to the house for lunch—typically, a gin and tonic followed by Norwegian prawns with mayonnaise and lettuce. At the end of every meal, Roald and his family had a chocolate bar chosen from a red plastic box.After a snooze, he would take a flask of tea back to the writing hut and work from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. He would be back at the house at exactly six o’ clock, ready for his dinner. Roald Dahl only wrote with the same pencil and that pencil had to be exactly same. It was a type of yellow pencil with an eraser on the top. Roald Dahl didn't want to leave his hut because he was very strict about his work, so he took six sharpened pencils with him. He would make sure six of those sharpened pencils were in a jar beside him. He made a very wise estimate about how many pencils he needed because the pencils lasted two hours before being sharpened again. Like his pencils, Roald was also very specific about the type of paper he wrote on. He only wrote on yellow American legal pad paper which was sent to him by New York. Loads of yellow paper was thrown away because Roald would make sure every word was correct. Because Roald Dahl wrote and rewrote, his waste paper bin would start to overflow. When that happened, he would burn all those papers in a bonfire. After Roald had finished a job of writing and rewriting, his work would be turned into a manuscript, sent to his secretary (Wendy) and the work would be published.