George R.R. Martin Addresses Mini-Rooms, Calls Them An “Abomination”

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George R.R. Martin has no patience with mini-rooms and how they make it impossible for new writers to succeed. In his latest blog post, the author talks about how he got his start in TV by writing for The Twilight Zone in 1985.

Had it not been for the old system where writers worked their way up, he never would have learned how to actually make a series. “For the first fourteen years of my career, I wrote only prose; a few novels, and lots of stories for Analog, Asimov’s, and various other SF magazines and anthologies.

Much as I enjoyed television, I never dreamt of writing for it until 1985, when CBS decided to launch a new version of The Twilight Zone, and executive producer Phil DeGuere invited me to write an episode for them.

A freelance script; that was how you began back then. I decided to give it a shot… and Phil and his team liked what I did. So much so that within days of delivery, I got an offer to come on staff.