Amatuer Work of Great Writers

[Anonymous No.12068900]

So we all know it's necessary to practice and write and read all the time to improve as a writer, even if you're starting with the rare noticeable natural talent it needs to be honed or you could easily be surpassed by anyone really committed to improving.

But what did this practice look like for Tolstoy, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Beckett, etc etc? Do we have the youthful, middling works of any great writers to look to for reference? Are these things purposely hidden by estates and publishers to deify valuable author legacies? Come on /lit/ let's please talk about this instead of more frogposting and racebaiting, I can't imagine I'm the only one curious about this.

[Anonymous No.12068907]

>>12068900
>wikipedia
>google
>look at their early bibliographies
>read those works

literally why did you type all that instead of doing the work you're asking about. what have you got against frogs, anon?

[Anonymous No.12068938]

>>12068907
I have Googled and read their Wikis. "Early Work" and the matching section of the bibliography is almost always "early published work", either their first big works they were recognized for or early published works, the latter being closer to what I'm looking for but not exactly.

[Anonymous No.12068944]

>>12068900
Did you just imply that frogs are social constructs?

[Anonymous No.12068954]

>>12068944

[Anonymous No.12068961]

>>12068907
i love this pepe

[Anonymous No.12068972]

>>12068900
Jill by Phil Larkin, he wrote it when he was 18

[Anonymous No.12069223]

>>12068900
Early Tolstoy is kind of demoralizing