George RR Martin, Joss Whedon, Jim Butcher, etc is not your bitch...

[shadowkat]

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/officialgaiman/525510.html?mode=reply&style=mine

Neil Gaiman in response to a question posed by a fan/reader who wants to know if they are entitled to be incredibly annoyed at George RR Martin for not delivering on the next installment of his Song of Ice and Fire series.

Short answer: George RR Martin is not your bitch.

Long answer - read the link above.

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Yeah, this is one of the great hopes of the internet: the possibility of creators getting to have some control over their creation rather than being completely at the mercy of the studio and/or network. Felicia Day said in an interview a couple of days ago that after her success with The Guild on line during it's first season, she had people approach her to take it over, not pay her very much, and probably even recast it so she wouldn't even be in it! *eyeroll*
Luckily MSN and Sprint came along and gave her enough money to keep her own vision going.

" They are going to write what is in their head - if it fits what we want - then magic."
I have to admit that I never have that clear an idea of what I want, and I'm happier when the writer exceeds my wildest expectations.... in fact I always feel let down if I get exactly what I expect because IMO it should go beyond the obvious/mundane answers I would come up with. I'm always reading/watching for that surprise element that opens up my imagination (which is pretty fertile on it's own) to new ideas. Like when Dresden animated the giant dinosaur bones in 'Dead Beat', I did not see THAT coming!