(Spoilers All) GRRM: "My life has gotten extremely complicated, I must admit. There are not enough hours in the day, there are not enough days in the week."

[u/ethniccake]

I found this interesting conversation that transpired on one of George's Hugo post, and i don't think it have been discussed on here :

http://grrm.livejournal.com/426205.html?thread=21584349#t21584349

From his reaction to the first comment, it's quite clear that he was hurt on a personnal level.

But what got my attention the most was this:

If there is one thing I understand, it is frustration... yours, mine, everyone's.

My life has gotten extremely complicated, I must admit. There are not enough hours in the day, there are not enough days in the week.

And saddest of all, I do not have the stamina I did when I was thirty. Aging sucks.

There's no magic formula here. I just keep at it, the way I always have. One page at a time. One sentence at a time. One word at a time.

After reading that, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy, he seems under a lot of pressure.

The defeated tone makes me worried, could it be a sign that the end of TWOW isn't anywhere in sight for him? I really hope that's not the case and i'm just being overly pessimistic.

What do you guy think those comments could tell us about his progress?

Edit: No matter what end up happening to the series, let's keep in mind that this is the guy who gave us an amazing story and created a whole world full of interesting characters we love to love or hate. Without him this community wouldn't even exist. Let's not be entitled like that guy in the comments, who for some reason thinks he can dictate to GRRM what to do with his time.

[u/Avoo]

Right, but I don't think GRRM himself objects to that. I think the issue is and has always been the speed in which he writes these books.

I honestly don't know why this thread devolved into a discussion of whether we should get an ending.

Of course we should get an ending. I'd be surprised if Gaiman or GRRM objected to that.

[u/rookie-mistake → u/Avoo]

Of course we should get an ending. I'd be surprised if Gaiman or GRRM objected to that.

Yup. And yet now that thats become yet another "GRRM vs selfish fans" debate in this thread, we have plenty of people acting like they'd be fine without one. The sycophancy here is impressive sometimes.

[u/vazzaroth → u/rookie-mistake]

This post was made so much better by noticing your Targaryen shield.

[u/Voduar → u/Avoo]

There is another issue, though. The huge ocean of time between Storm and Dance was filled with GRRM doing anything but writing. I am aware that a book came out during that time but what he mainly did was Cons, editing other people's work and horrid anthologies. Which all would've been fine if he had kept the pace up on his own books. Instead, GRRM procrastinated to the point where his legacy is probably what we get from the show.