London was such a smart cookie, writing 1,000 words every day.

While toiling in the gold fields of the Klondike, Jack los several of his fron teeth.
His bad health forced him to return to home. When he arrived California in 1898, he was met with the news of his step-mother`s death. Jack decided to foster his writing facility in order to keep his mother chin up. From that moment, London included one more discipline to his daily routine, to write about 1,000 words every day.