George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
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I would contribute to a GoFundMe where we would pay the studio and actors to redo season 8 with a better story.
TBH, _if_ he finished it, he has a golden opportunity to capitalize on people's dissatisfaction and publish an ending to the series that people will like. Then they can reboot the whole TV series and he can buy a few islands...
I cant believe I am not the only one who want this. Happy to pay a few hundred dollar just for this.
Honestly the books were hinting that Daenerys would end up the way she did in the show. The show just did it in a very hamfisted manner.
Edit: I'm amazed at Season 8's IMDb ratings. I thought the whole thing was a trash fire but the first 3 episodes - half the season - are still rated over 7.5.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/episodes/?season=8&ref_...
From what I remember the first three were competent and engaging enough in isolation but their plot beats locked in the inevitable car crash that only the book readers and super fans saw coming. Most of the ratings were probably soon after airing so the scores don't reflect the season as a whole.
The tangential thing will always feel better because you make rapid progress at the start, but the real returns come from completion.
That sounds horrible.
But not the book.
I feel the title is somewhat clickbait.
That was over a decade ago.
Or
That was before he made enough money to do something other than write in his trailer.
There are so many things that I picked up on the third read through that I simply would have been told in a later book if they were all available.
Thats a great idea. I bet it stops so many repetitive emails and tweets from fans.
People say this often, and I don't get it. Sanderson is a terrible writer and his works and themes are nothing like ASOIAF. His only merit he has is "finishes books quickly". He's not even a fan of the books, he says they're "too dark" for him. He's the worst possible choice!
But I don't want anyone to finish ASOIAF if George dies before it's over. It's his story and no one else can do it right. We did this already and everyone hated it!
Until he took over, Rand was basically continuously loosing his sanity in the pursuit of power, which he needed to fight the dark one, which brought him closer to the madness, feeding the cycle.
It kept getting more urgent, things kept escalating. But Sandersons Rand never really lost control, imo. Rand's success felt preordained by his story telling, whereas previously the only thing we could expect was that Rand would go down fighting.
To be clear, I'm aware that Sanderson finished the story via Jordan's notes. But I strongly suspect he wouldn't have kept to them if he wrote it himself. I base that opinion on the fact that the series was supposed to be way shorter. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 6 books
>We did this already and everyone hated it!
Because they rushed it in a way that made no logical sense.
He's scammed his fans so many times by lying about the charity work rewards, I'm surprised any of them still donate.
I will not read the last one even if he publishes it. I won't disparage the guy here, but I am no longer a fan, and I have zero faith he will ever finish the series. And if he does, he gets zero minutes of my time and zero units of my money.
I really don't understand why his editors don't just provide him a team, like a tv show writing room, and he can bounce ideas off them and have them mechanically churn out his ideas. He could knock it out in a few months and be a hero and put it all behind him cleanly then.
I find the idea kind of revolting, but I am also surprised that collaborative writing is so rare. I suppose it cuts to the question of what the point of writing the book is in the first place.
It is hard to think of a recent example aside from the expanse by "James S.A. Corey"
I suspect it's less rare than we think it is, especially if you consider how much editing a lot of editors end up doing.
Same with his parallel construction of lore using repetition of similar but distinct stories.
Simply saying "this is the truth" or "this is what happened" would not be the same, and I dont think many fanfic authors could pull it off convincingly.
But I don't expect Brandon Sanderson to finish that one. In fact, I don't expect anyone to even think about it.
At least for me, the first 90% is way more fun than the last 10%.
The last 10% is where you need to come to terms with all the mistakes you made along the way that prevent you from getting the final polish you want
Or perhaps this is just copium on my part.
That's what gives them such a rich feeling because he's working with characters and how they'd perhaps operate in the world but that makes it hard to wrangle them into particular positions if you're dedicated to the idea that they should proceed naturally from where they are to where they are next. It leads to a bit of a combinatorial explosion of needing to setup causes to push them into the next part of the story but you have to setup those causes first, which need their own antecedents, and on and on and on.
But I think most of the commentary here is just in fun. I'm not angry at GRRM, but TBH if I knew him I don't think I'd be able to pass up "so, George... how's the book coming?" every time I saw him -- or "dude, you'll do _anything_ but work on the book, huh?"
(Also: I am a writer. I know all about procrastination... best way to focus on writing is to have something else I don't want to do.)
I haven't seen any of that in this thread.