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Originally Posted by GlennD
Do you consider Sanderson's books mediocre?
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Originally Posted by lkmiller
I've read in an interview that GRRM likes "having written" rather than the actual process of writing. Sanderson never stops. He takes breaks from big projects by writing something else. He talks about writing on planes and on road trips. Martin only writes at home with Wordstar.
They're two of my favorite writers.
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My defense of G.R.R.M. was not meant to be a swipe at Sanderson. I haven't read any of his books and don't have an opinion. I'm really not a Martin fan either. I'd be more likely to read his Sand Kings, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag or Nightflyers than any of the Song of Ice and Fire series. I just didn't think the implication that George was writing for the money and dropped it when something more lucrative came along was fair.
Martin has issues with writing that you can see in any interview with him. There's a very good video on YouTube of
Stephen King and Martin having a conversation about writing. The man just seems to hate everything he writes right after he writes it and revises endlessly.
The comment about endless doorstops was from an old article by Don D'Ammassa mentioning a "host of brand new writers with no previous experience writing fiction but who could turn out one large epic adventure after another." I believe he was thinking of Terry Goodkind and R.A. Salvatore.