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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9123017" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I mean, the big problem with your theory here is that:</p><p></p><p>A) You have no proof that GRRM was financially pressured prior to ASoS, only that it took him to a new level of wealth.</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>B) GRRM has discussed this whole thing at extreme length, and acknowledged how he screwed up, and it's clearly not been a matter of "IM RICH! YOU CAN ALL SUCK A FAT ONE!", but rather, when he finished ASoS (and before it went huge), he stupidly (by his own admission) changed the plan from a 10-year timeskip to writing through that whole ten years.</p><p></p><p>Also, very problematic:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Funny how that only seems to apply to GRRM.</p><p></p><p>A lot of quite poor or marginal authors also have huge difficulties putting out follow-ups. Relevantly we might look at Scott Lynch. Who definitely isn't rich. Yet has, as a result of mental health issues and other factors, not put out a book for a similar period.</p><p></p><p>Further undermining your "Keep writers poor!" manifesto (a bold manifesto, admittedly, especially in the context of the WGA strike!), is that fact that a lot of extremely, staggeringly wealthy authors keep pounding novels out. In fact I would go as far as to say that with wealthy genre authors, that's kind of the norm. They may have an ultra-huge hit but it doesn't slow them down.</p><p></p><p>So at best I think we can say you offer a somewhat cruel-seeming and obviously incomplete theses. I don't think it actually makes sense until we add in the fact that GRRM absolutely blew up his own writing plan and never seems to have been able to get back on track afterwards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9123017, member: 18"] I mean, the big problem with your theory here is that: A) You have no proof that GRRM was financially pressured prior to ASoS, only that it took him to a new level of wealth. and B) GRRM has discussed this whole thing at extreme length, and acknowledged how he screwed up, and it's clearly not been a matter of "IM RICH! YOU CAN ALL SUCK A FAT ONE!", but rather, when he finished ASoS (and before it went huge), he stupidly (by his own admission) changed the plan from a 10-year timeskip to writing through that whole ten years. Also, very problematic: Funny how that only seems to apply to GRRM. A lot of quite poor or marginal authors also have huge difficulties putting out follow-ups. Relevantly we might look at Scott Lynch. Who definitely isn't rich. Yet has, as a result of mental health issues and other factors, not put out a book for a similar period. Further undermining your "Keep writers poor!" manifesto (a bold manifesto, admittedly, especially in the context of the WGA strike!), is that fact that a lot of extremely, staggeringly wealthy authors keep pounding novels out. In fact I would go as far as to say that with wealthy genre authors, that's kind of the norm. They may have an ultra-huge hit but it doesn't slow them down. So at best I think we can say you offer a somewhat cruel-seeming and obviously incomplete theses. I don't think it actually makes sense until we add in the fact that GRRM absolutely blew up his own writing plan and never seems to have been able to get back on track afterwards. [/QUOTE]
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