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Originally Posted by Timboli
I guess you know him to a fair degree, but possibly not enough, as I don't see him as an immature writer ... just a limited one perhaps.
My recollection of things he has said in the past, leaves me with a memory that he felt forced to continue writing in the Elric vein, and it is never good to write under that condition. Other comments of his has led me to believe, that he doesn't truly value the potential of such stories or even really fully respect that genre. I'm not sure either, that he respected Robert E. Howard, for instance, as much as he should have, considering. So perhaps a bit of snobbery on his part, some bias.
In a way, he seems to deliberately avoid, what often makes other writers very popular, in the methods of writing he uses. He almost wears that like a badge of honor, but sometimes I feel it is to the detriment of some of his stories, makes some feel less complete and more an exercise or experiment.
That's my perception of it anyway. I could be wrong though, especially in regard to his writings in the last decade or two, which I am not really familiar with yet.
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I'm also the one who didn't like Gloriana, which won awards, so a lot of it is a matter of taste. In general, when I say immature, I'm referring to his tendency to do things in one draft, things like that.