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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1844474" data-attributes="member: 5171">Sable: Very cool!  Can't wait to see some of the next stuff you write!  And hermph on the strong language... just because people were saying, "It was a lot of fun, but man, that language was sometimes beyond me," when I'd taken out 3/4 of the swearwords from the draft that you read... In the one I'm currently editing, I kept it to PG-13 (in violence and in language) just to play with the style a bit more.Oh, and the one you read is now called "Gilding the Apocalypse", since everyone told me "This needs a goofy title -- otherwise, people will think you're serious."Having gotten the critique from She Who Must Be Obeyed, I can now get the next one (the PG-13 swashbuckling romantic-comedy fantasy... thing) polished up and out into slushland (possibly for the Wizards open call) and get to work on the next 'un.  That one is setting up to be a fantasy version of Ocean's Eleven -- a caper job to steal an ancient elven manuscript from one of the most powerful men in the floating city that rules the rest of the kingdom. We'll see how that goes...And, to bring this back on topic... what I find worrisome as a fan is the fact that so many of GRRM's announcements have said, "I'm taking longer so that it can be perfect.  I'm slowing down so that it can be perfect.  I want to get it just right."  After five years, though, it's possible that his writing style will be different (I dunno if I'm the only one reading Robert Aspirin, but after his multiple years of "writer's block", his next Myth novel came back with a completely different style and a lot of instances of people telling the hero that he drinks too much...).  It's also possible that however good it is, even if it hits us all in our happy place, there's going to be a feeling of "Well, he didn't do this as well as he could have -- I mean, he did spend five-plus years on it."For me, at least, it's becoming one of those unpleasant deals where I know that as a reader, I'm going to have trouble forgetting that the writer spent five years writing and rewriting -- so it's going to be a kind of conscious presence for me there, the idea of the author choosing to do each thing that's happening.  I am likely overanalyzing this in a huge way, and if the book is anything like the last ones, I'll be pulled in within the first twenty pages and will completely forget all that other stuff.  That's the hope, anyway.I'd hold onto that "Never read a fantasy series until it's done" rule that some of my friends have, but then I couldn't talk about the new stuff with folks like you...</blockquote>

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