Of the Unappreciated Writer

[grrrm]

So summer vacation is finally here, and I am able to enjoy a couple of months of rest and sponging off of taxpayers, if you believe the anti-teacher rhetoric that is being bandied about these days.  People wonder, "Hey Ray, why would you, a Famous Hollywood Actor, decide to also be a high school English teacher?"  To questions like these, I

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[anonymous]

Thank you for the offer, give me a full nose please. Funny how I'm also a teacher, and also regularly meet people who think my summer vacation is somehow undeserved, too long, blahblahblah. I'd like to see *them* spend their Sundays correcting tests and shit. Correcting shit, I would like to see them do that. Oh yes. Gimme gimme gimme.

Fucking good point, btw.

And hilarious Shakespeare-pic!!

Slynt

He is old, rich and becoming famous

[anonymous]

George has neither the want nor the need to work hard at writing anymore. For all we know he does seem to work hard at being a celebrity author, which is really his new career. For us expect him to grind away at the next two books is quite unrealistic. I would like for him to find someone to help him finish the series in a reasonable time period. that would be a solution we could all live with.

[anonymous]

Keep it up Ray. I still read this blog.

Now that Dance is nearby and the HBO series has been released, people seem to be more willing to forget the dark days of yore, when we waited eagerly to hear a single word mentioned on "not a blog" regarding our favorite fantasy series, even though it meant enduring GRRM's grasping moneysucking posts, or his inane ramblings on subjects we couldn't care less about.

But I haven't forgotten those days, and I'm not going to forgive! grrrm lives on!

Economics: where Fantasy meets Reality

[anonymous]

I find that GRRM could do no better to reinforce the central theme of Song - that the pursuit of power necessitates the abdication of moral behavior, than for him to simply take the money and run.

They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but I think the middle finger is mightier than the alphabet.

multi-volume sagas

[anonymous]

Nice point, and to continue your idea, I've wondered at the impact Gorge RJ failing to complete their multi-volume sagas in a timely manner and at the same quality as the start mean that the multi-volume saga becomes unattractive to publishers, ruining it for the next generation?

The counter I guess is that sales are still great for even the crap volumes, so that's all publishers care about...

[anonymous]

Nothing that GRRM did (or did not do) during the writing of ADWD merited the vitriol he got from you. I wanted him to release the next novel too. I just read a bunch of other stuff while I waited.

I know you think you are clever comedians. What you really are is a pair of anonymous bullies with a blog. "Ray", you claim to be a high school English teacher. Does your school have an anti-bullying policy? Have you ever seen a student at your school being targeted by bullies, in person or online? If so, why didn't the cognitive dissonance make your FUCKING HEAD EXPLODE?

I look forward to your inevitable slide into irrelevance and obscurity.

[grrrm]

Is it bullying when Fox News attacks Obama?
Is it bullying when Bill Maher insults Sarah Palin??
Is it bullying when the Gooch takes Arnold's lunch money???

Perhaps. But you know what's the worst form of bullying? The elimination of free speech.

Keep in mind that this blog was born from GRRM's suppression of criticisms on his own blog, and his invitation for his detractors to take their criticisms to their own blogs.

So anytime George wants to take back that comment and embrace freedom, we're ready. In the meantime, your bullying analogy is not only a poor one for a host of reasons too numerous to list here, but it also ignores the most fundamental point: all of this came at George's request.