As I blog I am watching the recent interview featuring Stephen King and George R.R. Martin, two of my biggest literary influences. The interview is fantastic and really speaks to the character of these two giants. It also inspires me deeply. Now, that isn’t the point of this article. In fact, the point of this article is about how the TV show Game of Thrones concluded and represents a sharp departure from the canonical work of Martin and wraps up a number of smaller plotlines and answers many questions about what is to come of the game. Now I don’t think the book is even going to follow the show in any way. I do believe that Winds of Winter will come out one day and will reintroduce Jon Snow, but there are so many more layers to that series than we have time to unravel in a TV Show.
This blog is short and took a while to write, which says a lot about writing while vaguely distracted by the heavyweights of popular fiction. Young writers, don’t try this at home.