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[Nabubrush]

And I still maintain that if you are writing a serial you have an obligation to your readers to finish it. 

Hm.

Can you mention this to Piers Anthony so he will stop spewing out whatever it is he does?

[Doc]

GOD those last dark tower books destroyed my enjoyment of the first three. now i hear he's working on another. whatever, i'm done, ain't gonna read it. felcher.

I've been reading them on and off for a couple of years, I'm up to wolves of Canaan (I think that's what it's called, the one after wizard and glass, which I thought was a bit tangential but alright for what it was). Should I not cause myself myself the pain of knowledge and just imagine what could have been?

[pmcd9]

But unless you have your release schedule announced ahead of time, are you obligated to spend every waking hour working on said serial until it is done?

I don't have a personal stake in the debate because I never read serials.  They almost all suck.  

[littlefallsmets]

And to be fair, I don't... think I ever said that the guy didn't have a RIGHT to erect a paywall.

I just thought it was disingenuous to move so much of the peripheral material to it mid-stream (when he used to occasionally did something on that earlier paywall thing, I wasn't nearly as offended as when he moved ALL the blogs and peripheral material except the strips to the paywall) and...

More importantly, I thought it would be creatively stifling (which might still be part of his problem) and I thought it would be bad for business in the long run.

If you're making six figures selling books and shirts because people keep coming to your site every day for the little blogs and sketches and whatever between the sparse actual strip updates, why would you limit the growth of your fanbase by shoving that all behind a paywall? That's the thing that's most madnessing. It's like slitting the goose that lays the golden eggs because you no longer have the feature to draw in NEW hardcore fans.

You're just skimming three bucks a month off the old fans instead of bringing in new ones to buy hundreds of dollars of shirts and books every month. That's what drove me up a fuck*ng wall more than anything.

Maybe I said at some point he didn't have a "right" but I'm sure I was being stupid that day. Some days I forget my anxiety medicine to be blunt about it and I apologize for that.

[theinevitable]

wait, he kept writing the blogs? I can read more blog posts if I pay the three bucks? I remember liking the blogs a lot.

Hm.

[Nabubrush]

wait, he kept writing the blogs? I can read more blog posts if I pay the three bucks? I remember liking the blogs a lot.

Hm.

I liked the blogs a lot too.


Maybe Chris is just a shitty businessman.

[Choop]

I've been reading them on and off for a couple of years, I'm up to wolves of Canaan (I think that's what it's called, the one after wizard and glass, which I thought was a bit tangential but alright for what it was). Should I not cause myself myself the pain of knowledge and just imagine what could have been?

YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

if i could un-read wizard&glass and everything after, i would

[Doc]

What about skipping to the last one? I want some closure, damnit.

[greenkoolayd]

I want some closure, damnit.

amen.  im on the wolf one, too.  i noticed that it has gotten sketchy after the third one, just like everyone said, but im seeing this through to the end.

[Choop]

skip to the like fifth from the last page of the last one, and be warned: i wanted closure, too.

[pmcd9]

Occam called, he needs a trim.

But... Occam is the one with the razor, wouldn't they be calling him for a trim?

[arkabee]

i think every artist has an intrinsic right to be bat-shit insane to an extent that their worldview makes absolutely no rational sense.

i think that most, if not all, artists who aren't bat-shit insane don't usually make great art.

i think that the creator of a good or product of any sort has the right to say "fuck it, i quit" in exactly the same way that any service worker or laborer has.

i think that if a creator of art produces a product loved and adored to such an extent that his or her fanbase gets pissed off when they cease producing more of it
gets pissed off because their fanbase loves his or her product that much that they are bat-shit insane.

LIFE IS A CIRCLE OF LIFE.

[CortJstr]

But unless you have your release schedule announced ahead of time, are you obligated to spend every waking hour working on said serial until it is done?

I'd rather GRRM take the time to write a book he thinks is good enough to release rather than rushing it because the internet wants it yesterday.

I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm just saying because of his track-record I'm waiting for the last book to come out before I buy the first one. It's not like he's some unknown author where the publisher might drop him because the existing books aren't selling well enough. The fear of that is part of why I've been buying the Malazan Book of the Fallen series in hardcover as they come out.

[Nabubrush]

I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm just saying because of his track-record I'm waiting for the last book to come out before I buy the first one. It's not like he's some unknown author where the publisher might drop him because the existing books aren't selling well enough. The fear of that is part of why I've been buying the Malazan Book of the Fallen series in hardcover as they come out.

This is why I don't watch TV - I can't take the chance that they won't be able to follow through the whole creative arc and achieve the finish they want to deliver. Unfortunately other people do the same, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[CortJstr]

This is why I don't watch TV - I can't take the chance that they won't be able to follow through the whole creative arc and achieve the finish they want to deliver. Unfortunately other people do the same, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I was going to ignore Dollhouse just for this reason but my girlfriend at the time insisted we watch. Though I did give up on both Lost and BSG when the writers admitted that while they implied a huge story arc they were making it up as they went.