Tweet of the Day, Well, Tolkien DID Leave Copious Drafts Behind edition.

It seems reasonable to look at them.

So, for various reasons, I'm rereading the HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH books about the writing of Lord of the Rings. They're fascinating (for certain values of fascinating); what I'm going to do this time try to extract writing advice (thread)

— Gareth Hanrahan (mytholder@mastodon.ie) (@mytholder) October 26, 2020

Via @KevinKulp.

Moe Lane

PS: My biographers are going to hate me. Every part of my writing process is electronic! They’re going to guess as to a lot of this stuff.

PPS: No, I won’t start writing it down. If they have to guess, then one answer will be as good as the others when it comes to graduate theses. I’m not a monster.