GRRM: Readers 1, TV watchers 0

TarionzCousin · May 14, 2015

Homicidal_Squirrel said:
I'm thinking it's more likely that the producers got tired of how long it took Martin to write one episode. They probably decided to throw more money at him just so he would get the hell out of the way.

To be fair to GRRM, he's almost done fine-tuning his episode for Season 2.

Umbran · May 14, 2015

delericho said:
Which would be why I said leaner. Any particular reason for the reductio ad absurdum?

Cause it is so true of both the books and show as to be funny.

Unfortunately (and, yes, IMO), the books have started to really suffer from the same problem as "A Wheel of Time"

It probably isn't exactly the same problem. You see, Jordan was married to his editor. Rare indeed is the person who can give appropriate editorial critique and be a spouse. And that would become even more true after he became ill. Specifically, in her words: "By the last of the Wheel of Time books, my role was primarily that of wife: keeping him fed and cared for—because after 20 plus years I had taught him everything I knew about storytelling and prose, and he had really become the wonderful writer that he was."

Read into that as you will.

delericho · May 14, 2015

Umbran said:
It probably isn't exactly the same problem. You see, Jordan was married to his editor.

Okay, maybe not exactly the same problem. But the symptoms are quite similar.

Jhaelen · May 18, 2015

Hand of Evil said:
some people cannot "finish", you see it all the time with writers, they just don't know when to let go.

Actually, I think that's true for most authors. In IT we call that "never change a running system" - why finish a multi-novel series if it still sells like hot cakes?

People can say what they want about J.K. Rowling, but at least she had a very good idea how to finish her storyline from the beginning and managed to meet her goal of concluding it, as announced, in seven installments.

Dioltach · May 18, 2015

Mark Lawrence commented on that same issue at the end of Emperor of Thorns: people were telling him to just keep writing and sell more books, but he stood by his original idea and finished the story. It gave a refreshing sense of completion to me as a reader.

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