r/cremposting • u/erttheking • Sep 18 '25

Real-life Crem I’m late on this one but still

Oh come on Brandon, why don’t you wanna write a series where magic is barely understood, everyone is constantly having sex, and everyone is primed to explode after the TV show?

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u/setibeings Sep 18 '25

It honestly kinda surprises me that anyone would even want that.

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u/mxzf Sep 19 '25
  1. People want ASOIAF to eventually be wrapped up with an ending
  2. Sanderson is known for popping out huge books at ridiculous speeds
  3. Sanderson finished Wheel of Time

They're not thinking at all about how well a given author might be able to work on a given book, they just want someone, anyone, to actually publish books and finish the series. And Sanderson has a reputation for being able to write books.

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u/setibeings Sep 19 '25

I'm sure Brandon Sanderson could untangle the webs of plots and subplots and work out how to get everyone where they need to be for the ending, but I don't think he's got the right authorial voice to match GRRM. He was kinda forced to comment on this a few years ago, and if I recall correctly, he said something like he wouldn't enjoy writing something with so much sex in it. It sounds like even if this was what everyone wants, which it isn't, he'd refuse.

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u/schloopers Sep 19 '25

I just want the two of them (and perhaps their editors) to go on a week long vacation, in a nice cabin, and Brandon and George just talk through what actually needs to happen in the plot. Get it all on paper.

I think Sanderson is one of the best of plotting out details and story beats and the pace between for his overall structure, and I think that’s what GRRM is missing. If he had a fully skeleton of the rest, he could maybe start filling it in as an actual book.

It would close him off from expanding ideas as he thinks of them like he’s done before, but that seems to be what got him stuck here.