i get wanting a favorite story to continue, but the way people yell “where book?!” at some authors every time they pop their heads up is a little extreme
i’ve been waiting for the third part to the Kingkiller Trilogy for a while and was like, “dang, this is taking too long”. then i read that he had a nervous breakdown and purposely took a long break i accepted that pretty easily. meanwhile comments sections are like “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM GIMMIE MY STORY!!”.
like damn. how can some have so little respect for the creatives, as human beings, telling us compelling stories? some real tired-baby-wants-bedtime-story tantrum ass shit.
Most people don’t know this, but whenever you yell at a creative like that, they will delay the project by another few days out of spite. Considering the amount of people screaming it at George R.R. Martin, the next book will probably come out sometime around 2380 or so thanks to that.
Okay but George deserves it.
He keeps doing shit like making a post saying “The winds are coming” and it’ll be some tv show called The Dark Winds or something, or promising that forr sure its gonna be released soon. At this point hes promised the release of the book about 40 times.
At a certain point people do get to call him a liar and ask him to nut up or shut up.
Like, he doesn’t owe anyone a book. Maybe he’s contractually obligated to the publisher but fuck the publisher. And I’m sure he doesn’t feel great about not being able to finish his series. Plus, HBO fucking nuked his story.
Okay but hes spent over a decade lying to people, and constantly teasing people about the release and doing coy bullshit almost-nouncements.
I have zero sympathy. None. People get to ask him when hes actually going to release the book he promised, and people get to react to his projects with derision because he started it.
The moment he stops lying and stops hyping new projects by implying they’re the new ASOIAF book I could see having some sympathy. But as it stands I hope he cant even go grocery shopping without someone telling him he owes people a book.
I’m sure it’s to keep his financial backers happy. At the end of the day, it hurts no one aside maybe his investors. But there’s probably more to this story that I don’t know about and you’re probably right.
I dont really care why he does it. I care that he lies and he keeps going to the press and whining about how unfair it all is that people are asking about the book he said he would release dozens of time by now.
And even if he didnt 100% deserve it. Even if this wasn’t entirely a problem created by his constant lies. I would still not care that much about a multi millionaire bourgeois investor being occasionally asked during interviews or comment sections when he’ll release a book.
I dont even want the book either, I’m just opposed to the way the narrative is framed like GRRM is a victim because his fans take him seriously when he says things and he gets offended by that.
i get wanting a favorite story to continue, but the way people yell “where book?!” at some authors every time they pop their heads up is a little extreme
i’ve been waiting for the third part to the Kingkiller Trilogy for a while and was like, “dang, this is taking too long”. then i read that he had a nervous breakdown and purposely took a long break i accepted that pretty easily. meanwhile comments sections are like “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM GIMMIE MY STORY!!”.
like damn. how can some have so little respect for the creatives, as human beings, telling us compelling stories? some real tired-baby-wants-bedtime-story tantrum ass shit.
but my treats though
Most people don’t know this, but whenever you yell at a creative like that, they will delay the project by another few days out of spite. Considering the amount of people screaming it at George R.R. Martin, the next book will probably come out sometime around 2380 or so thanks to that.
Okay but George deserves it. He keeps doing shit like making a post saying “The winds are coming” and it’ll be some tv show called The Dark Winds or something, or promising that forr sure its gonna be released soon. At this point hes promised the release of the book about 40 times. At a certain point people do get to call him a liar and ask him to nut up or shut up.
Like, he doesn’t owe anyone a book. Maybe he’s contractually obligated to the publisher but fuck the publisher. And I’m sure he doesn’t feel great about not being able to finish his series. Plus, HBO fucking nuked his story.
Okay but hes spent over a decade lying to people, and constantly teasing people about the release and doing coy bullshit almost-nouncements.
I have zero sympathy. None. People get to ask him when hes actually going to release the book he promised, and people get to react to his projects with derision because he started it.
The moment he stops lying and stops hyping new projects by implying they’re the new ASOIAF book I could see having some sympathy. But as it stands I hope he cant even go grocery shopping without someone telling him he owes people a book.
I’m sure it’s to keep his financial backers happy. At the end of the day, it hurts no one aside maybe his investors. But there’s probably more to this story that I don’t know about and you’re probably right.
I dont really care why he does it. I care that he lies and he keeps going to the press and whining about how unfair it all is that people are asking about the book he said he would release dozens of time by now.
And even if he didnt 100% deserve it. Even if this wasn’t entirely a problem created by his constant lies. I would still not care that much about a multi millionaire bourgeois investor being occasionally asked during interviews or comment sections when he’ll release a book. I dont even want the book either, I’m just opposed to the way the narrative is framed like GRRM is a victim because his fans take him seriously when he says things and he gets offended by that.
But do you really want a book by a guywho feels for ed to crank it out?