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George R. R. Martin
Personal blog · georgerrmartin.com/notablogwritingculture
George R. R. Martin writes George R.R. Martin, a personal blog at georgerrmartin.com about writing and culture. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “An Ending”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
George R. R. Martin's personal site, including his 'notablog' posts on writing, publishing and TV work, plus fiction pages. HN commenters link it for his career and for a fiction piece about a rogue planet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- An Ending2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-21
- Writing, Reading, Writing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-24
What Hacker News says?
He may be focused, but not on finishing A Song of Ice and Fire . https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/03/21/this-that-and...
Comment linking /notablog/2022/03/21/this-that-and-tother-things/
on “Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished”Submitted Writing, Reading, Writing as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSorry, should have added a footnote for him: http://georgerrmartin.com/ There's also a wikipedia article, of course. He wrote the first 3 books of his 7 book series at a normal pace, about every 18 months, but then slowed to a crawl for book 4 - something like a 5 year delay. Writer's block happens, but what makes people angry is that he continues to have an extensive "extra-curricular" schedule involving workshops,…
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on “John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update”Submitted Writers on Set: George RR Martin on why WGA is striking to end “mini rooms” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCool! For a Nice read on a Roque planet (fiction): https://georgerrmartin.com/grrm_book/dying-of-the-light/
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on “An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way”Submitted Long Long Ago as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe classic is Dying Earth by Jack Vance, but my favorite of the series is Eyes of the Overworld , and you'd be fine to read that first since the novels of the series are self-contained. My opinion is that the subgenre should by definition be self-consciously set in that world or something similar, and some of the novels that do that are from Michael Shea: https://goodman-games.com/blog/2021/07/20/the-other-cugels-s…
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on “The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons”Submitted An Ending as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne suggestion: Most artists like to promote other artists. For example: http://www.georgerrmartin.com/about-george/what-im-reading/ I like looking at John Scalzi's "Big Idea" section where he lets other authors talk about their books on his blog. Find it here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/
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on “Entitlement issues (2009)”Submitted George R. R. Martin: Better Late Than Never as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat moved to a wordpress site in 2018. See https://grrm.livejournal.com/ and https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
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on “Typepad is closed for business”Submitted Dark Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHoly moly, I don't know how I never knew about this. https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2017/03/30/max-headroom-... Mine was supposedly to be… hmmmmm, let me see now… the fourth episode of the series. My title was “Mister Meat.” Now, TV writing in those days was a two-step process: “story with option to teleplay,” they called it. You wrote a ‘story,’ a short plot outline with all the major beats and characters. The…
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on “WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50”Submitted Writing, Reading, Writing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted George R. R. Martin on Fan Fiction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ending as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random Updates and Bits O' News as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grab for the Ring as a story · 1 points
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