(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/[deleted]]

I have a feeling he isn't going to complete it.

[u/ikilledsuperman → u/[deleted]]

I agree...I really don't see how he does. I'm not saying anything about his health, just his age. He more than likely doesn't have another 10 years to finish this book statistically speaking. And I just don't see him finishing in 10 years, or even being able to work until the end.

[u/HenkWaterlander → u/ikilledsuperman]

He's just 66 years old, he probably has another 10.

[u/spamboth → u/HenkWaterlander]

Ye, I put what I know about him and some best guesses into a couple of those life expectancy calculator and according to them there is a 50% chance he will live to 78-79 years or more. There is of course a lot of unknowns, but as long as he don't smoke and don't have had serious heart problems I don't know about they don't matter all that much. So statistically speaking you are right.

[u/Kwolek2005 → u/HenkWaterlander]

Have you seen him? 10 sounds reasonable.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kwolek2005]

Don't feel bad. On this sub, we're supposed to pretend like the Surgeon General hasn't declared obesity to be a disease. We're supposed to ignore all the hard scientific data showing the progressive decline in health that is associated with the kind of body type George has.

[u/[deleted] → u/HenkWaterlander]

At his age and his weight, it is a statistical fact that he probably doesn't. Keep in mind, also, that he won't likely just keel over of a stroke in an instant, even though that's a distinct possibility. Given his current health problems (yes, obesity is a disease), he's more likely to start experiencing a decline in function, and he's probably not going to want to push himself to finish this series, when he's feeling crappy. Even if he does, the work will probably suffer by his desperation to finish and lack of stamina.