Who is your mother Jon Snow?

[jons spearwife]

α) να μην σκέφτηκε από την αρχή πως θα τελειώσει, απλά να άρχισε να γράφει
β) να σκέφτηκε, αλλά να θέλει να το αλλάξει για να μας εκπλήξει με όχι πειστικό αποτέλεσμα
γ) να μας πασάρει πληροφορίες και να ανοίγει θέματα που ποτέ δε θα απαντηθούν (είτε επίτηδες, είτε απλά για να μεγαλώσει το μυστήριο και να μην ξανασχοληθεί με αυτά, κάτι σαν το τηλεοπτικό lost που στο τέλος, όσοι το έβλεπαν 6 χρόνια έμειναν μ@λάκες για το χρόνο που έχασαν)

To quote myself from another thread;

They say: “Oh God, the butler did it!”, to use an example of a mystery novel. Then, you think: “I have to change the ending! The maiden would be the criminal!” To my mind that way is a disaster because if you are doing well you work, the books are full of clues that point to the butler doing it and help you to figure up the butler did it, but if you change the ending to point the maiden, the clues make no sense anymore; they are wrong or are lies, and I am not a liar.

και για το αν θα αλλαξει κατι;

So many readers were reading the books with so much attention that they were throwing up some theories and while some of those theories were amusing bullshitt and creative, some of the theories are right. At least one or two readers had put together the extremely subtle and obscure clues that I’d planted in the books and came to the right solution.
[...]So what do I do then? Do I change it? I wrestled with that issue and I came to the conclusion that changing it would be a disaster, because the clues were there,” he said. “You can’t do that, so I’m just going to go ahead.