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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
He was famously dismissive of Tolkien, particularly in his essay likening LOTR to Winnie the Pooh, " Epic Pooh". |
Some of his comments in there (eg: "
Like Chesterton, and other orthodox Christian writers who substituted faith for artistic rigour") seem a bit rich coming from a man who proudly reports avoiding second drafts. I can't find the original article where I read this, but
here he is reported saying of The Dancers at the End of Time: "
I had to rewrite the last volume (first book I had ever done a second draft of!) to put the science fiction in" (bold mine). And when I first read that it was suddenly so obvious: of course, that's what I've been reading: first drafts. And sometimes they worked and sometimes they really (really!) needed work.