Show HOW ZOLA WORKS how tie french novelist Novo list birts ana writes his books epoch Z 0 I 1 aa 1 0 private life budged by novels has abw a ltd an and byi ites are 0 t most be kind married in early life t a young girl in humble station zia has a been a home body outside of a very few friends he has never received any company and in the way of visits he has limited his calls to very few friends sue as daudet voncourt goncourt Gon court and oher pen tier the novelists paris are in the rue ballu tut he spends only two or three months her 2 hen be is super tending the rehear fil of a making research es ac the I 1 the rest of t he ear he ae so a ittle vil age overlooking the seine not birr beyond the forest germain where beis one of the municipal councillors councilors counci lors of his e ilia study i s an immense room hung in at one end of which is a largo divan covered with oil k cushions and orien tid A window occupying nearly one side of the room gives liet screened through glass bancs in rich and representing flowers and pea cocks in all sorts of attitude 1 preparing his novel la tom h U went into the beatina country hired horae and traveled about from farm to farm talking with the peasants after be has collected all his material he hakea a plan dividing the work into its various parts and for each of these parts be classifies the notes be has taken aben be be gins to write the novel he con steps to make notes bug geared by the work as it advances and these daily notes am added to those already e for t chapters zola is very methodical oal about bi a work lie has a regular task that reform 8 each day up at 8 in ohp m g le takes a short walk with his dogs bedora eating his breakfast at 9 he sits down to work and writes until 1 when the baily task is finished after the noon laeal he takes a ap p and alq be is awake and ready for his mail which arrives at that hour aaen dirner dir ner and a chat or 11 me of billiards with his friends ng retires to his study and reads laie into the night before As soon as one novel is finished generally takes a few weeks brebt be fole beginning another book and during this time be gives up to the pleasures of rural life gardening etc |