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What's interesting about PF, of course, is that she just didn't do very much writing earlier on. Glad to hear you have made some progress!


But she did. From the article:

> The other answer given is that she wasn’t, in fact, such a late starter. Critics point to her childhood stories, anonymous reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, her probable contributions to Desmond’s history of the Irish Guards, and the literary magazine she and Desmond ran together when the children were little. There were also four short stories she wrote earlier in life: two as a young child, two in the 1950s when she was a mother. (Fitzgerald wrote very few short stories overall.)

I would guess that were I to die today, there would be very little evidence that I wrote anything before 2014.


I wouldn’t consider that much writing over 30 years (from 15 to 45 yo). Fiction as just 4 short stories, being 2 as a child.

I’d would say that’s very little writing before your first novel.


I got the detail from the Steegmuller biography. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62447/page/n13...

I believe it refers to this painting, which has, I believe, changed attribution, but which is still referred to as by a "Breughel follower". https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41602.html#:~....


Well, looks like it's the Wikipedia article on the paintings that's wrong, sorry about that! I'll try adding the 'Brueghel follower' painting to the list.


What's the deal with fish in strange places? Bosch seemed to be all about that too. Is it a Dutch thing?



Completionism isn't necessarily equated with achievement.Samuel Johnson claimed never to have finished a book.


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