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I don't blame them for writing themselves into corners, but lacking the courage to tell your readers that you've done so and there will be no resolution to the
by EA-3167 2y ago
I don't blame them for writing themselves into corners, but lacking the courage to tell your readers that you've done so and there will be no resolution to the story you've been writing doesn't impress me. I don't think they owe people a resolution, but I do think they owe them a bit of honesty.
- ziddoap 2y agoThe thing that irks me the most is that Patrick Rothfuss used to brag about how he had already completed all three books of the trilogy, and just needed to do editing passes. That was over a decade ago.
- readthenotes1 2y ago"That was over a decade ago." Or That was before he made enough money to do something other than write in his trailer.
- im3w1l 2y agoSo about the writing themselves into a corner part, it would be unconventional but what about releasing a second revision of an earlier book to make the whole coherent?
- Suppafly 2y agoGRRM's issue is that he needs to figure out how to get all of the interesting characters in one place from across a huge world. He just needs to write some sort of teleportation into the story, that's how Jordan handled it in the WoT series.