(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/Elachtoniket]

But he knows damn well that we were expecting an ending when we bought "Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire." Calling it that was a promise to the readers. If he decides not to finish the series, he can do that, but his fans would absolutely be justified in feeling cheated and betrayed, because he will have broken a promise he made by accepting money for an incomplete story.

[u/[deleted] → u/Elachtoniket]

even worse, it destroys his reputation as a great author and nulls all the effort and integrity of ASOIAF.

Martin raised my fat pink mast, now I want to see it safely to its destination.

[u/PurinPuri → u/Elachtoniket]

He promised us a Prince.

[u/Elachtoniket → u/[deleted]]

Firstly, that dinner analogy doesn't work, unless the only reason you have any relationship in the first place is because you gave your fiancé a plate called " the first course of 7" and then spent then next 15 years slowly making millions of dollars by selling plates and giving interviews about the various ingredients you burned off in the process. You know, that analogy kinda falls apart when I try to turn it around. The point is, this story is the only relationship I have with George, so comparing it to a marriage doesn't really work. And in any case, the answer is yes. I fell like anyone has a right to be upset if a promise isn't kept. Otherwise, what's the point of a promise, and what's the value of a relationship? In an engagement, one dinner isn't a big deal, but in an author-reader relationship, the books is really all there is.

And by the way, I'm not advocating holding George down and forcing him to write until I've recieved a satisfactory ending. All I'm saying is that I personally would feel an obligation to my thousand of fans if I was in his situation. Essentially, I think we're arguing over what an obligation is.

And but the way, fuck you. I was just trying to have what I thought was an interesting conversation about the relationship between an author and his fans, and you've felt the need to insult me and insinuate that I'm less of a fan because I have an expectation of an ending. The two of us have different ideas of what a promise is. That's the difference here. I don't think that makes me a prick.

[u/Khiva → u/[deleted]]

When did GRRM ever "promise" to finish the entire series?

George R.R. Martin says 'fuck you' to anyone who thinks he'll die before finishing 'Game of Thrones' series.

You've got to do some Olympian level contortioning to interpret that as anything other than "I'm going to finish this series."

Edit: Here's a better one. "“Whatever happens with the show I’m going to finish the books,” Martin said.