what i mean by "the author is boxed"

[pocochina]

The...introduction? disclaimer? part where I walk out slowly with my hands in the air?...to my TVD post for the week got wicked meta, and then off topic, and then just plain out of hand. But it was helpful to work through, I think, so I decided to make it easily linkable. This is what I mean when I say “ the author is boxed.”

Comments

[noybusiness]

That's a great quote!

[pocochina]

Isn't it great, though? As much as I doubt it would change my opinion of Whedon's stories if he didn't think that way, I do suspect his being the kind of writer that does is part of what lets him write stories that work so wonderfully for so many of us.

[noybusiness]

I quite agree.

Read any more Ice and Fire since that last post?

[pocochina]

I have, though it's been a while. I started A Dance with Dragons a while back. I do still enjoy it, but I kind of ran out of steam.

[noybusiness]

Ah. Well, if you can manage it, it's well worth finishing for many reasons.

[pocochina]

Oh, totally. I haven't been turned off the series by any means, I think I just burned too quickly through a couple of the books and needed a break from them.

[noybusiness]

Well, you have a lot of time before the next book is released, probably. You can read A Dance with Dragons slowly.