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Any news on Peace Talks
Dina:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on December 19, 2018, 12:50:11 AM ---I'll take some news over no news most days.
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In this case, I agree.
Avernite:
--- Quote from: spiritofair on December 17, 2018, 11:10:41 PM ---This whole, "he didn't have a writing space because he was living in an apartment" line just reeks of BS. Surely his publisher could have rented him an office and decorated it in any way he wanted. Considering the amount of money on the line, I can't imagine they wouldn't do this.
I love Jim's writing. But I hate being bullshitted. Why do people do it? Sure, there are some stupid people that will buy this kind of BS, but it just pisses other people off. Why not just be honest? Maybe he's sick. Maybe he's burned out and needed a break. Maybe he was messed up by the divorce and is now on Cloud 9 due to the marriage, and he just doesn't want to write. It could be any number of things, but I just cannot believe that it is due to him not having writing space... that's just about the most pathetic excuse I've ever heard.
Maybe he is working on the television series and it's very hush hush and he can't talk about it and as a clue to us, he came up with the dumbest excuse ever, so that we'd know it was fake?
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Or maybe it's "all of the above" and he picks the most obvious? He had no 'own space' to work in, and his life was a bit messy so noone thought it would really help to fix that problem because he had too many other things going and besides was sort of burned out anyway.
It reminds me of Tolstoy - a breakdown in a writing flow can be caused by dozens of different causes, a happy productive writer is always the same because it needs all those factors lining up well.
Mira:
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--- Quote from: Avernite on December 19, 2018, 12:18:55 PM ---Or maybe it's "all of the above" and he picks the most obvious? He had no 'own space' to work in, and his life was a bit messy so noone thought it would really help to fix that problem because he had too many other things going and besides was sort of burned out anyway.
It reminds me of Tolstoy - a breakdown in a writing flow can be caused by dozens of different causes, a happy productive writer is always the same because it needs all those factors lining up well.
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However there is plenty of evidence that he is writing, so I doubt that is a break down in writing flow. I think after twenty years of writing about the same character he may be a bit tired of it. That is only natural, yet I can see him unwilling to wrap it up because Harry is to a great extent his bread and butter. I am not saying that his other stuff isn't good, it is, but he knows we are loyal, even if someof the Dresden stuff is less good and we are willing to wait, cutting him lots of slack..
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 19, 2018, 05:14:44 PM ---I think after twenty years of writing about the same character he may be a bit tired of it. That is only natural, yet I can see him unwilling to wrap it up because Harry is to a great extent his bread and butter.
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Perhaps there's also a bit of a barrier that PT is the one to slog through, before getting to MM which is going to be the fun one.
It seems like most of the fans are more hyped for the concept of MM anyway. Hard to blame the author if he's feeling a bit of the same way.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on December 21, 2018, 02:13:07 AM ---Perhaps there's also a bit of a barrier that PT is the one to slog through, before getting to MM which is going to be the fun one.
It seems like most of the fans are more hyped for the concept of MM anyway. Hard to blame the author if he's feeling a bit of the same way.
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Yeah, at this rate though it may be six years before we see MM, maybe more, it is hard baring a movie or new series on television for the excitement to last. I doubt that fans would remain as patient with GRR Martin if GOT wasn't on the tube... As it is because he is indeed coming out with
other books and writing television series, many fans are beginning to feel jerked around... Personally I doubt that we will see Winds of Winter until the series ends next year.. But now that a prequel is also in the offering, it may be longer yet, and GRR Martin is not a young man any more.
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