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Topic	GRRM to write a blog post about everything that went wrong w/House of the Dragon
s0nicfan 08/30/24 2:21:43 PM #28:	ai123 posted... The relationship between author and reader is simple: authors choose what to write and readers choose whether to buy it. No one 'owes' anyone anything. The moment you start thinking that, you are stifling creative freedom. (Which includes the freedom to do nothing). It gets a bit more complicated when we talk "respected opinion" and "legacy" though. Like... should he be invited to judge competitions or speak on writing as someone who won't finish his own series? After he dies, does he get the Robert Jordan treatment where we treat his series as a respected work of fiction cut off early by the death of the author? Or do we acknowledge that he could have finished and decided not to, meaning his series isn't some tragic unfinished work, but a half-assed story without a conclusion? Does he get to be up there with Tolkien? Or as a lazy hack who stopped trying when the big checks started rolling in? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:981926439] in GRRM to wr... [t:80837711]...</cite> <quote>ai123 posted... </cite><quote>The relationship between author and reader is simple: authors choose what to write and readers choose whether to buy it.No one 'owes' anyone anything. The moment you start thinking that, you are stifling creative freedom. (Which includes the freedom to do nothing).</quote>It gets a bit more complicated when we talk "respected opinion" and "legacy" though. Like... should he be invited to judge competitions or speak on writing as someone who won't finish his own series? After he dies, does he get the Robert Jordan treatment where we treat his series as a respected work of fiction cut off early by the death of the author? Or do we acknowledge that he could have finished and decided not to, meaning his series isn't some tragic unfinished work, but a half-assed story without a conclusion? Does he get to be up there with Tolkien? Or as a lazy hack who stopped trying when the big checks started rolling in? --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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