[ 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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05.
[Avengers Endgame]


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06.
[Harlots]


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[Mindhunter]










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Comments

[(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.