Lack of practice? He had almost 9 years off between Inheritance and To Sleep, even if he did have a tiny bit of practice with Fork Witch Worm. 9 years of no short stories (at least, none he's shared or published), no novellas (again, that's he's mentioned or shared), no writing practice or workshops or even NaNoWriMo, and then he tried to jump into a story the length of 3 already large stories almost without shaking the dust off (okay, so he h=got a little practice in with Fork Witch Worm, but you can't tell me he spent more than a day on each story) is not going to produce refined results. Especially when he also doesn't care about the art writing.
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Lack of practice? He had almost 9 years off between Inheritance and To Sleep, even if he did have a tiny bit of practice with Fork Witch Worm. 9 years of no short stories (at least, none he's shared or published), no novellas (again, that's he's mentioned or shared), no writing practice or workshops or even NaNoWriMo, and then he tried to jump into a story the length of 3 already large stories almost without shaking the dust off (okay, so he h=got a little practice in with Fork Witch Worm, but you can't tell me he spent more than a day on each story) is not going to produce refined results. Especially when he also doesn't care about the art writing.