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re: Will George R Martin ever finish Winds of Winter? Releasing another story
Posted on 2/4/17 at 4:53 pm to cupchu1
Posted on 2/4/17 at 4:53 pm to cupchu1
You seem to be one of the few that gets it. 
GRRM can wipe his arse with everything he hasn't sent to publishers, and not write another damn thing the rest of his life (however short it may be, now that he can be diagnosed by sight alone
) and still die on a bed of gold big enough for him and his ego.
As much as he struggled his ENTIRE LIFE trying to make it as a writer, as much as he was fricked by TV/Hollywood, his is TOTAL power and control, and he has no qualms about rubbing people's noses in it.
He is a writer, though, and he LOVES his series, but he's also wise enough to know that NOT finishing the series isn't the worst thing that can happen. During a talk with Joe Hill, he indicated how disgusted he was with the way people reacted to the last "The Dark Tower" books, after King wrote at "breakneck speed" after his accident FOR THE FANS and to FINISH.
And I applaud him.
frick 'em all.
GRRM can wipe his arse with everything he hasn't sent to publishers, and not write another damn thing the rest of his life (however short it may be, now that he can be diagnosed by sight alone
) and still die on a bed of gold big enough for him and his ego. As much as he struggled his ENTIRE LIFE trying to make it as a writer, as much as he was fricked by TV/Hollywood, his is TOTAL power and control, and he has no qualms about rubbing people's noses in it.
He is a writer, though, and he LOVES his series, but he's also wise enough to know that NOT finishing the series isn't the worst thing that can happen. During a talk with Joe Hill, he indicated how disgusted he was with the way people reacted to the last "The Dark Tower" books, after King wrote at "breakneck speed" after his accident FOR THE FANS and to FINISH.
And I applaud him.
frick 'em all.
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Posted on 2/4/17 at 5:05 pm to 19
It's amazing to see how many of you don't understand th creative impulse and how fragile it is. It's not like there is a switch for it.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 5:40 pm to 19
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During a talk with Joe Hill, he indicated how disgusted he was with the way people reacted to the last "The Dark Tower" books, after King wrote at "breakneck speed" after his accident FOR THE FANS and to FINISH.
No one is saying he needs to rush. Your comparison falls through though when he has spent more than 3 times the time on his series to date than King did.
Another part of the frustration is that I honestly don't see the longer durations resulting in a superior product. His best books in the series were the ones that he wrote inside of two years.
The longer it takes him to write, the worse the book it seems to me. It just feels different and more disjointed, possibly due to segments of the books being written and finished years from others and therefore suffers a change in writer's perspective.
Also, you start to hurt your characters with books this long in duration because you change their characterization of them mid story because you changed your mind from 7 years ago.
Maybe it's just me, but while DwD wasn't bad, it just seemed "meh" to me, and kinda flat.
And don't get me started with how he turned some of it to masturbatory erotica due to his personal issues
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