it's especially visible in The Course of the Heart (1992), which contains remixes or inclusions of four identifiable stories.
Interesting! I've not read any of his books, but that must have made for a fun bit of detective work tracking them all down. Now I'm thinking of Tolkien writing different versions of his Silmarillion tales in various lengths and styles, though I can't remember which bits came first (wasn't Eärendil as the rising evening star one of the first things?).
I'm also more of an 'accretion' writer—I'll have particular images or moments that I want to incorporate into a longer story before I've plotted it out fully, but they always exist in the context of the larger idea.
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Interesting! I've not read any of his books, but that must have made for a fun bit of detective work tracking them all down. Now I'm thinking of Tolkien writing different versions of his Silmarillion tales in various lengths and styles, though I can't remember which bits came first (wasn't Eärendil as the rising evening star one of the first things?).
I'm also more of an 'accretion' writer—I'll have particular images or moments that I want to incorporate into a longer story before I've plotted it out fully, but they always exist in the context of the larger idea.