SAT0725 OP t1_iye7jhw wrote on November 30, 2022 at 7:07 PM

Reply to comment by tvp61196 in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

Also, at this point it's not like he HAS to write anything. He could just retire and live his wealthy lifestyle in ease till he dies at this point. The only incentive to write is for himself.

SAT0725 OP t1_iydy3un wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:07 PM

Reply to comment by yallscrazy in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

> it's not difficult

Sure, it's easy! That's why there are millions of writers out there as successful as George R.R. Martin, right?

If a fraction of the fans who complain about Martin had been writing on their own these past eight years we'd have a lot more to read.

SAT0725 OP t1_iydr4vw wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:23 PM

Reply to comment by NinjaEngineer in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

Eh, different writers have different processes. Seems like I've read interviews with Rowling where she's said she had the whole story in her head almost from the very start.

SAT0725 OP t1_iydqz36 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:22 PM

Reply to comment by yallscrazy in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

Because he went from creating something entirely new to now having to write a story that someone else already told to all his fans. As a writer I can tell you that gets tricky.

SAT0725 OP t1_iyd9c0x wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:26 PM

Reply to comment by NinjaEngineer in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

> The first movie came out before the fifth book did

To be fair though, by the time the fifth book came out she was probably well into the writing of the last one. It takes forever for publishers to go to print, usually more than a year after the book is finished.

SAT0725 OP t1_iyd94n4 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:24 PM

Reply to comment by TheNextBattalion in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

It's gotta be hard to continue when the story was already "finished" by someone else.

SAT0725 OP t1_iyd4nbb wrote on November 30, 2022 at 2:53 PM

Reply to comment by selfdestruction9000 in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

> He’s built an interesting world but it’s clear he wants to keep world-building rather than focusing on the story he set out to tell

Unless the world building IS the story

SAT0725 OP t1_iycxn5x wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:58 PM

Reply to comment by Heck_Tate in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

I still feel like it'd screw with your process to suddenly have faces to go with all the characters in your head. Like suddenly you're writing to specific people when before they were your own creations, just in your head.

SAT0725 OP t1_iycs1kl wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:09 PM

Reply to comment by JesusDeBike in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

> they knew how Martin intended to end the series

Do you have a source on that? I feel like I remember interviews with Martin where he explicitly said he wouldn't have ended it that way...

SAT0725 OP t1_iycrkyg wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:04 PM

Reply to comment by medici-slot-machine in What's your favorite "coffee table" book? by SAT0725

> Phaidon and Taschen

Yes!

SAT0725 t1_iy8lpsz wrote on November 29, 2022 at 3:52 PM

Reply to Epilogues by Ok-Dirt8743

I think you're looking at epilogues the wrong way (if there is a "wrong" way). Epilogues aren't meant to be an ending; epilogues are what happens AFTER the ending. So if it feels like an abrupt ending, that's because it's not an ending. It's just a "Hey, this is what happened later, after the story was over."

SAT0725 OP t1_iy850ps wrote on November 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM

Reply to comment by LastAd298 in What's your favorite "coffee table" book? by SAT0725

Yes! The Taschen Basic Art Series is the best!

SAT0725 t1_ixe2qoo wrote on November 22, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Reply to When is the authors POV too much? by Extension_Virus_835

Not sure how you'd know if the POV was influenced by the author or not unless you really followed the author in real life and knew their thoughts/opinions...

SAT0725 t1_ixe2j2y wrote on November 22, 2022 at 7:13 PM

Reply to Just finished Fahrenheit 451 and I think I've found me a new favorite author by bookworm579

"The Martian Chronicles" is great. A short story collection but all the stories are loosely connected around a common theme.

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