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Re:How Penelope Fitzgerald became a late blooming novelist on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:26AM (#40158002)
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!
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#:~....

Re:I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:42AM (#31001855)
Completionism isn't necessarily equated with achievement.Samuel Johnson claimed never to have finished a book.