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Alex Dahl

Alex Dahl

Norwegian novelist

Jun 24, 2026

1:17
Can you let us know how your day-to-day bog standard works? day of your writing
1:23
would look? That's something that has evolved so much over the years.
1:28
When I first started out, when I had the contract for my first novel and I was, you know, putting together the full thing and the edits and all of that, I treated it very much as a nine to five.
1:40
I would sit in my chair every day for those hours, sort of pressurize myself to stay in the manuscript for that amount of time.
1:48
And that's something that I've completely abandoned over the years.
1:51
With new material and creative material, I generally never work more than two to three hours in a day.
1:56
And I don't work every day.

32 MINS LATER

34:24
Do you feel like that around your characters? Do you feel like you want to get everything around your characters? And do you feel like that about people in real life? Or is there a real separation? Yeah.

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