Or in this case, the first draft of her novel! Try explaining that one to your publisher!
It seems somehow appropriate that a mischievous dog helped stop Roald Dahl's granddaughter from making a big writing mistake.
It happened when model-turned-author Sophie Dahl was composing her first full-length novel in longhand, on a legal pad. She thought it was more romantic that way — and the tone matched.
"It was so childish but I found I was writing as I imagined a book should sound. I had this sort of rather grand voice. It wasn't true," she says. "It was bloody awful."
Thankfully, that's when a puppy — can't you just imagine it leaping from the pages her grandfather's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? — destroyed the fledgling novel.
"In the morning, I came down and there was just confetti. The puppy had just ripped everything to shreds," says Dahl, 30. "I thought, 'OK. Fine. Start again.' " Read More >>
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