So Dahl scrapped the manuscript and started over.
She produced 26 novels in 40 years, allowing herself by her own account 30 minutes between completing one manuscript and starting to think about the next.
Far more intriguing than its illustrations, however, is the accompanying text: 234 pages of beautifully formed, yet completely unintelligible script.Modern scholars have pored over the book since 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, an American antiquarian, bought the manuscript and started circulating copies in the hope of having it translated.
The allegations that he ghost wrote Hamlet, The Voynich Manuscript, and started The Chicago Fire are completely unfounded.
He and his colleagues began combing through other submitted manuscripts and "started seeing problems all over the place".
This claim is made over and over in the manuscript and it really started getting on my nerves.
Free ebook self-publishing platforms, such as Amazon Digital Text Platform, Smashwords (my company), Scribd, Lulu, and Sony's recently announced Publisher Portal, allow writers to upload their manuscript as a Microsoft Word document, and start selling it online to a worldwide audience within minutes or days.
SJC oversaw the effort and was involved in drafting and revising the manuscript from start to finish.
It's hard to start a manuscript and harder to finish it.
Manuscripts arrived and I'd open them and start reading straight away.
