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Jun 30, 2016 04:17AM
Write. It's not that hard. Just sit down and type. Stop wasting time on things nobody cares about. Put down the donut. Type.
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Josh wrote: "Write. It's not that hard. Just sit down and type. Stop wasting time on things nobody cares about. Put down the donut. Type."Just fuck you, man.
Josh, nobody cares about the Presidential election? Not a very Christian response to a simple post.
He doesn't read this anyways. It's just fed in from his livejournal
When he bills a book as part of a series and never delivers on his promise of a finished series, then, yes, he is our bitch.
Earlier this year, he cut out all of his editorial projects except one so that he could focus on the book. He's making sacrifices, and he's delivering.If you've read Neil Gaiman's blog post that I linked above and still think Martin is your bitch, then you're probably little more than an entitled prig.
Maybe it'd be easier to be forgiving if he didn't consistently make deadlines and break them, or if he didn't allow for his story to be finished by some hack television show. GRRM has turned his back on his fans and people are completely justified in being angry about it. Cheers.
Dan wrote: ""George R.R. Martin is not your bitch." —Neil Gaiman
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05..."
Thank you for this, Gaiman's article is pure gold!
Daniel wrote: "Maybe it'd be easier to be forgiving if he didn't consistently make deadlines and break them, or if he didn't allow for his story to be finished by some hack television show. GRRM has turned his ba..."Would't you rather wait and get a great story than read a mediocre story now? And HBO isn't finishing anything, a lot of things that happened this season could never happen in the books as the books are more complex and have much more characters and the characters are doing completely different things in the books than in the series.
Cheers to you too! :)
Dan wrote: ""George R.R. Martin is not your bitch." —Neil Gaiman
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05..."
Awesome article from Neil Gaiman! And thank you for posting this, Dan. ;)
Josh wrote: "Write. It's not that hard. Just sit down and type. Stop wasting time on things nobody cares about. Put down the donut. Type."Actually, writing a quality book is pretty fucking hard. Especially when they are GRRM-length books.
I really wish that GRRM would just "publish" an "official short version" that he could point to whenever people got all rude about him owing them the next book. Something like, "There were several great battles, and a good deal of treachery. And those who survived it all continued to live about as happily as they ever did, for at least a while longer. The End."If you want something better than that, you might have to wait a while.
asoiaf has so many characters and plots that need to be tighten up! damn right i wanna wait as long as it takes. otherwise, it'll be killing people just to finish storylines and make the characters act out of character just for the sake of plot like in the show.
My vote's for sale. The price is Winds of Winter.
Josh wrote: "Write. It's not that hard. Just sit down and type. Stop wasting time on things nobody cares about. Put down the donut. Type."Josh, stop being a tool. It's not that hard. Then you won't waste our time having to read moronic comments nobody cares about.
Seriously, if you've been a fan for more than five minutes (some of us have been reading ASOIAF for two decades now and GRRM's work since the 1970s), you'd know that his pace is standard. The last two books took just as long as this one. Find a new hobby if you can't learn patience.
Chris wrote: "My vote's for sale. The price is Winds of Winter."Too bad I can't like/retweet/reblog this.
I agree with the obvious that writing is hard, and writing a 1000 page epic with 10,000 years of history is infinitely more so.
But I don't want to see Martin wasting time writing for the HBO show, relax at 15 different conventions, edit a new book every other month, etc., etc.
After all, if Erikson can churn out 10 books of even more challenging speculative fantasy in 12 years, so can Martin.
He hasn't written a show episode in years and has never "churned" out books in a very long career. Why on earth would you expect him to be something he's never been just to satisfy your impatience?
Greg Fasolino, I agree entirely! I prefer for him to take his time with his books, so to make sure they aren't rushed and are as amazing as the rest.
Daniel wrote: "Maybe it'd be easier to be forgiving if he didn't consistently make deadlines and break them, or if he didn't allow for his story to be finished by some hack television show. GRRM has turned his ba..."I'll be the first to say the author of a book owes his fans absolutely nothing. He's put out 5 books of A song of Ice and Fire for the general public to love and cherish. Would we all like to have the sixth book out now, you bet. But face the fact of reality man. Books are not easy to write and the fact that his series is so expansive and he's grown to the series along with the amount of detail and pressure from fans and editors and HBO and everyone else. Cut the man some slack here. If he published his book now it'd either be lacking or unfinished, which isn't worth it. Learn patience and you're life will be more fulfilling and less angry.
"But I don't want to see Martin wasting time writing for the HBO show, relax at 15 different conventions..."SERIOUSLY who are these people who think they can talk about a human being like this? Martin is just a man - he can write his books as slow as he wants and do whatever he wants. So weird people.
It's genuinely bizarre and sad on here that people think they are *entitled* to have Martin write them a book.
Daniel wrote: "Maybe it'd be easier to be forgiving if he didn't consistently make deadlines and break them, or if he didn't allow for his story to be finished by some hack television show. GRRM has turned his ba..."He doesn't owe you or anybody anything. He is a human doing what he loves for a living and at the pace he's comfortable doing it. Stop with the childish, entitled, bullshit attitude.
Josh wrote: "Write. It's not that hard. Just sit down and type. Stop wasting time on things nobody cares about. Put down the donut. Type."Fuck you
Dear Daniel... George is not "our bitch." He is a amazing author who has brought us ASOIAF, be thankful to have it at all. He will finish when he's finished, until then deal with it. Calling him names and being rude doesn't accomplish anything, at all.
The point was not to tell you how tough writing is, but to get you to go out and register to vote in time for elections this November. Not to call each other names and lord it over one another.
I love the fact that there are still readers like me who are willing to wait. Kudos to you guys.
The Winds of Winter will be done when it's done.In the meanwhile, GRRM is right, register to vote! That is more important than any fantasy book.
Personally I just don't care anymore, 5 years between books is too long and I'm tired of waiting.
I waited 6 years for Dance, I'm just now starting to get impatient for Winds. Always amused me when people were complaining after a year or two or three. Though I will say I won't start a series without it being finished now unless it's an author I know can churn them out (Weeks, Hobb, Butcher).
Honestly, the wait would be fine if he would stop making deadlines and breaking them. That's my main issue. He gets your hopes up with a promise of an announcement only to break it every single time. He should just keep quiet until it is done.
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