/lit/ - Literature

>>22503344
>Did Patrick Rothfuss and George Martin write themselves into a corner?
They are both what you call "Pantsers" (aka writers who just make shit up as they go along and try to retroactively fit it into what they already wrote) the opposite of a "Plotter" (somebody who plans out a story beginning to end).

If Rothfuss or Martin were plotters they'd have already finished their series' by now. But because they both ascribe to the "I'm not gonna plan shit and just make shit up as I go along" they, unsurpsingly, have written themselves into a corner. They can't figure out how to finish their stories to save their lives.

The lesson here is: always fully plan out your stories beginning to end or you will end up as another Rothfuss or GRRM.