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George RR Martin says he’s Healthy, Isolated and Getting PLENTY of Writing done
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nah, there's an unspoken understanding that it's a dick move for a storyteller to leave the audience hanging. I imagine it dates back to the first stories ever told by a campfire.
look if Dance turns ten before we even get a WoW release date, then i"ll worry about Winds. But it if will happen and i have to believe that it will happen because the alternative is like ten different cliffhangers of increasing anxiety never being resolved and I do not want to deal with that
its been so long since ADWD that i have gone from disliking AFFC to kind of being meh about it to really admiring it
is that stockholm syndrome
is that stockholm syndrome
You've entered the Acceptance stage of grief after how the show ended.
It's basically nothing but he talked about it last year.
He discussed how, yes, he had completed a draft of the entire Kingkiller Chronicle back in 2000 but described this early version as "a book you would not have liked, because it was just discernibly bad" and emphasized the changes that he had made to it in the nearly twenty years since then.
"But I am moving forward," he said. "More importantly, I'm finally getting my life sorted out so that I can go back and approach my writing and my craft with the joy that I used to feel back in the day, when I was just an idiot kid playing D&D or working on my unpublishable fantasy novel."
He taught a college English class I took in 2000. From what I remember, the story was pretty huge at that time like he says. I never read it myself but he was letting others in the class read it. I thought it would just be some amateur thing so I never bothered.
Already got my bucket of tar ready. Can't decide on whether to use the traditional goose feathers or endangered California Condor, just to drive the point home.
Hahaha
As juice drips down my chin and I drink wine to help with the digestion.
If he was working at all, like even a little, the book would have been out years ago. I don't care what trade you are in, imagine not delivering a product you're expected to release for three years. Let alone six, or nine or whatever it's up to nine now for Winds of Winter? I lost count. No one would believe you. I don't care if you're a programmer or writing children's stories or building a porch.
More power to the man, it's not like he owes us anything really. But it is as fantastical as the dragons in his stories to believe he has worked much at all on Winds.
As juice drips down my chin and I drink wine to help with the digestion.
If he was working at all, like even a little, the book would have been out years ago. I don't care what trade you are in, imagine not delivering a product you're expected to release for three years. Let alone six, or nine or whatever it's up to nine now for Winds of Winter? I lost count. No one would believe you. I don't care if you're a programmer or writing children's stories or building a porch.
More power to the man, it's not like he owes us anything really. But it is as fantastical as the dragons in his stories to believe he has worked much at all on Winds.
He's writing a Westeros Cookbook.
Remember how some of us thought that with the Meereenese Knot resolved that TWoW would be out sooner than AFfC or ADWD? lol fuck
Remember how some of us thought that with the Meereenese Knot resolved that TWoW would be out sooner than AFfC or ADWD? lol fuck
Just yesterday I was thinking about the end of the TV show and I couldn't even remember everything that happened.
I just don't give two shits anymore, like at all. I'll just go on the reddit page if the book comes out and read some posts.
Way to win George. Oh and the jets still blow
Doesn't matter. Next time he gets a case of writers block or hits a knot, he'll erase everything and start again, just like he always does.
I had actually forgotten about this what with the shows awful ending and Martin's inability to finish anything he starts.
I had actually forgotten about this what with the shows awful ending and Martin's inability to finish anything he starts.
Writing every day?
came for snark, was not disappointed.
He's already said yes to both. Hell, there are 2 more Fire and Blood books
I seriously wonder who is George R.R. Martin's publisher and how are they this patient with waiting for his next book?
Thanks to the show, every single one of the past books were on the NYT Bestsellers's List at the same time. They're rolling in dough right now.
I wonder howGRRM is looking at the blowback on the (extremely successful and beloved) show as an opportunity to enact giant "revisions?"
The biggest opportunity from my perspective is to give the Night King a persona and a story- and give the Mountain a proper comeuppance - his brother suffered the least of any of his victims and arguably is the only personal beneficiary of the Mountain's horror shows.
this could be the written equivalent of the Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut.
The biggest opportunity from my perspective is to give the Night King a persona and a story- and give the Mountain a proper comeuppance - his brother suffered the least of any of his victims and arguably is the only personal beneficiary of the Mountain's horror shows.
this could be the written equivalent of the Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut.
I'll believe it when it's on the bookshelf.
Sadly while the show ending makes sense for the books given her arc through ADWD so far (and unlikely Martin would just have her go stupid and insane practically overnight in the dumbest possible way), it didn't make sense for the show given how they changed her arc. D&D wanted the shock of the book ending without putting in the work to bring the characters there naturally.
I think the best ending the show could have done that would have made sense would be to have had her win (lose one dragon in final battle, not to sneak attack Euron), not mindlessly torch King's Landing but instead have her accidentally set off the wildfire cache during a less one sided battle. Have the regret and shame of what had happened cause her to simply leave Westeros and return East to rule where she had lived her whole life anyways. Basically give her a victory that rings truly empty in Westeros when she's faced with all she's lost and all the damage she's done for a crown she never really considered if she wanted. The loss of two of her dragons and immense numbers of troops only tempered by some pride in defeating the Night King (not that the show didn't flub that too...).
Jon gets left to pick up the pieces, once again taking up a mantle he didn't want to rebuild a broken kingdom.
Nightflyers on repeat, sad that it didn't give him another pile of money.
Sadly while the show ending makes sense for the books given her arc through ADWD so far (and unlikely Martin would just have her go stupid and insane practically overnight in the dumbest possible way), it didn't make sense for the show given how they changed her arc. D&D wanted the shock of the book ending without putting in the work to bring the characters there naturally.
I think the best ending the show could have done that would have made sense would be to have had her win (lose one dragon in final battle, not to sneak attack Euron), not mindlessly torch King's Landing but instead have her accidentally set off the wildfire cache during a less one sided battle. Have the regret and shame of what had happened cause her to simply leave Westeros and return East to rule where she had lived her whole life anyways. Basically give her a victory that rings truly empty in Westeros when she's faced with all she's lost and all the damage she's done for a crown she never really considered if she wanted. The loss of two of her dragons and immense numbers of troops only tempered by some pride in defeating the Night King (not that the show didn't flub that too...).
Jon gets left to pick up the pieces, once again taking up a mantle he didn't want to rebuild a broken kingdom.
Nightflyers on repeat, sad that it didn't give him another pile of money.
I've read all the books - I'm thinking more along the lines of a revisionary "fable" - "remember the white walkers once had a king..." - not that he appear suddenly in the story. I'd be happy to see his take on it even if it's a literal punch and judy show gag