or: blogging about blogging
tl;dr nostalgia goggles and ranting looking back at the internet pre-2007Found "LJ Revival" today. Then a user who expressed my feelings, which inspired me ( Read more... )

Tolkien does not waste. If he creates a rough draft, and later changes it and chooses not to use it as the final draft, he will not discard the rough draft. The rough draft's idea will either be incorporated in the future, or used internally as a piece of of the story or history. Tolkien was also careful with usage of paper, since it was expensive ( Read more... )