Okay, to be fair, mostly this was because he couldn t squeeze the time to write in between his day job and other concerns. But even these problems can be overcome if you really want to put the ideas on paper. The worst problem Aaron had, in my opinion, was that his ideas never got a chance to grow. Thanks to honestly well-meaning friends, they ended up stillborn. It s easy for this sort of thing to happen.
Humans are very good at talking themselves into and out of things, writers especially.
We should be glad of those people who help push our craft and our genres forward. But we can t all be rebels, nor should we all want to be rebels. Rebels may shake things up, but someone has to make something out of the newness they create. Lately, fantasy has taken it on the chin for being mired in a quagmire of traditional, hoary old storylines and clich -ridden plots. We ve all heard the arguments that fantasy is nothing more than elves and unicorns and wizards and magic.