I’ve never read any of the books in Game of Thrones. But I have read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. It’s 7 books written between roughly 1978 and 2004. First four books are great, written between 1978 and 1997. Importantly though, he only wrote those 4 books when he had the inspiration. But the 4th book was more of a flashback that didn’t really advance the story (book 3 was written in 1991, I think). So, much like Martin, fans were constantly asking King to finish the story.
And he did. He wrote books 5-7 right after each other around 2004. And you know what, it’s my opinion and not everyone agrees… but those books suck (5 is ok I guess). Not only that, but the very end of the series was written as an explicit “fuck you” to all his fans who wanted him to finish it (he said in the epilogue about how some people think sex is all about an organism and not everything before).
So he wrote when he didn’t have any inspiration for the story just to please his fans. Maybe Martin’s just lazy, sure. But I suspect he has no idea how to end it and if he tries now thr end product will be garbage.
GRRM allegedly knows the ending. It’s the broad strokes of what we saw on GOT. Martin’s problem isn’t lack of inspiration, as someone who has read too many of his blog posts for insight I’m confident it’s the opposite. He gets a new idea, has to rewrite hundreds of pages to make it work, then throws that out and rewrites again. That’s what happened with the first big break, for books 4 and 5. At least that was his problem a decade ago. Now it’s probably a mix of depressing disappointment at being beaten to the punch by GOT and his status as “important writer” as a distraction.
I’ve accepted long ago we won’t get the books to finish the series and moved on with other fiction. But if GRRM wanted to end the books he could punch them out and do so.
In his defense he literally pauses the story 50 pages before the end and says “this would be a great time to stop reading if you want a happy and satisfying ending… no ok well don’t fucking blame me then”
I’ve never read any of the books in Game of Thrones. But I have read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. It’s 7 books written between roughly 1978 and 2004. First four books are great, written between 1978 and 1997. Importantly though, he only wrote those 4 books when he had the inspiration. But the 4th book was more of a flashback that didn’t really advance the story (book 3 was written in 1991, I think). So, much like Martin, fans were constantly asking King to finish the story.
And he did. He wrote books 5-7 right after each other around 2004. And you know what, it’s my opinion and not everyone agrees… but those books suck (5 is ok I guess). Not only that, but the very end of the series was written as an explicit “fuck you” to all his fans who wanted him to finish it (he said in the epilogue about how some people think sex is all about an organism and not everything before).
So he wrote when he didn’t have any inspiration for the story just to please his fans. Maybe Martin’s just lazy, sure. But I suspect he has no idea how to end it and if he tries now thr end product will be garbage.
All things serve the beam.
GRRM allegedly knows the ending. It’s the broad strokes of what we saw on GOT. Martin’s problem isn’t lack of inspiration, as someone who has read too many of his blog posts for insight I’m confident it’s the opposite. He gets a new idea, has to rewrite hundreds of pages to make it work, then throws that out and rewrites again. That’s what happened with the first big break, for books 4 and 5. At least that was his problem a decade ago. Now it’s probably a mix of depressing disappointment at being beaten to the punch by GOT and his status as “important writer” as a distraction.
I’ve accepted long ago we won’t get the books to finish the series and moved on with other fiction. But if GRRM wanted to end the books he could punch them out and do so.
lmao, if it ends the way the show ended, I hope he never writes it
I feel like the TV series caused many writing dilemmas for him. He has to write the final teo books with GoT seasons 5-8 existing
In his defense he literally pauses the story 50 pages before the end and says “this would be a great time to stop reading if you want a happy and satisfying ending… no ok well don’t fucking blame me then”
See the turtle, ain’t he keen?
to be fair SK had a bad near death accident that affected that thing