thread: 2011-06-19 : Previously on Game of Thrones
On 2011-06-27, Christian Griffen wrote:
See, Martin knows this Fiction Writing 101 stuff. He's an award winning writer with decades of experience. So to try and tell him that his story doesn't fit the principles people read about in Fiction Writing for Dummies is... a bit naive. He's purposely subverting expectations and established conventional wisdom. It's much like modern art in that way, and the reaction is similar.
It may not float some people's boats, and that's fine and good. But these books are written with full knowledge and skill of conventional fiction writing.
