I can't figure out how this guy ever wrote his first books. I guess low barrier to entry to write books. Were they successful at all before the TV show?
100% true. The issue of ASoIaF being a subversion of heroic fantasy only complicates the writing of the ending for 'Hard R' Martin. See-- the 'traditional' ending would be a marriage. (Snow/Daenerys with her as the crown is what's usually proposed.) Martin has been so thoroughly subversive of the genre that now he's stuck having to either write a traditional/standard ending or not finish at all. Anything else, like the way the show ended, won't satisfy. So he's stuck.
I can't figure out how this guy ever wrote his first books. I guess low barrier to entry to write books. Were they successful at all before the TV show?
Beginning the story is much easier than finishing it satisfactorily.
100% true. The issue of ASoIaF being a subversion of heroic fantasy only complicates the writing of the ending for 'Hard R' Martin. See-- the 'traditional' ending would be a marriage. (Snow/Daenerys with her as the crown is what's usually proposed.) Martin has been so thoroughly subversive of the genre that now he's stuck having to either write a traditional/standard ending or not finish at all. Anything else, like the way the show ended, won't satisfy. So he's stuck.
If this is what he's slow walking over, he really is a giant faggot.