[ SECRET POST #4615 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4615 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Veronica Mars]


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03.
[The Order]


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[Good Omens]


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[Avengers Endgame]


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[Harlots]


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[Mindhunter]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

FYI, fellow writers hate these people, too, anon.

I’m a professional writer. I put out books every year. And I actively avoid writing series now because of people like GRRM and Rothfuss who won’t finish their series and make readers leery of starting new series. Which makes my job harder, honestly, because publishers don’t complete series that won’t sell. So fellow midlist fantasy writers like myself get so annoyed with NYT bestsellers who won’t finish their damn series. (Also, I’ll admit, I’m jealous of writers with that kind of clout because if I ever pushed back a deadline that much, my publisher would just cancel my book.)

[(Anonymous)]

+1 For lack of a better word, the sheer privilege of those authors is what bothers me. Their stuff will get published no matter what. They get sold-out events and the works despite it coming up on a decade since the last book in the series. When you put them besides the authors who DO put out work consistently, it's so so frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I didn't know. I remember Neil Gaiman defended GRRM, saying that readers aren't entitled to authors finishing their series before they died, but I didn't imagine even other professional writers hated those kinds of people, as well.

I'm only a hobbyist writer, with only the barest hope of someday getting my novel published, but something I learned is that there is an emotional contract of sorts with your audience. Sure, they won't die from you not releasing your works, but their emotional investment is massive enough to care for your characters, feel they live in your worlds, and... come think of it, it can be a form of denying them emotional closure when you do not finish a story.

With publishers being picky over series that may not be finished, I assume they prefer self-contained stories, all in all, or do they accept stories that work from the same universe a la Terry Pratchett?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

When Gaiman said that years ago, a lot of people in the industry agreed with him, in no small part because he was responding to GRRM's fanbase attempting to use the death of one of GRRM's friends to guilt him into finishing a book faster. Whether or not you're professionally irritated at people who couldn't stick to a deadline if the fate of the world depended on their ability to meet their commitments, that isn't okay.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I probably would hesitate to start reading a series that wasn't already finished or wasn't promised to only be a trilogy or duology. I read WIP fanfic all the time, but I'm not being asked to shell out money and I can still get more of those characters from the canon or other fics.

[(Anonymous)]

This doesn't surprise me. I support an author on Patreon who goes out of their way to make sure their supporters know they're working on their next novel. The author has always been candid about not being able to write full time until getting Patreon supporters and in their eyes we're the ones who make that possible. I love being a part of that!