Writing Tips : On Being Late

One of my own favourite authors, Charles Stross has a piece today about the convoluted mechanics behind writing sets of novels – talking about his own experiences and those of George R R Martin (whose book I freely admit I just can’t get into at all) who is apparently very late on the next installment of his epic work, and has written a blog post about it, and (as Stross says) “issued a comprehensive response to the vocal and annoying fans who think he can pull a quarter of a million words out of his ass on demand”

It all makes for interesting reading – I must admit, I’d never really thought about the intricacies of writing these epic novels – most likely because it’s never been likely to be the sort of thing I ever wrote – but the insight Stross gives makes it worth the effort.