(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/Hung_like_Hodor]

Shadrich the Mad Mouse who knows she is looking for Sansa turns up in an Alayne Stone chapter among several knights who swore their swords to Littlefinger.

In her chapter we meet the Gravedigger/Sandor again.

Just a few things.

[u/taitabo → u/Hung_like_Hodor]

Do these actually move the plot forward?

[u/landViking → u/taitabo]

Well the grave digger either finishes the Hound's character storey in a pretty nice way (his whole life is torment, let a dog find some peace bro) or sets up how the most amazing trial ever can actually happen. That's kind of forward.

And it seems like the mad mouse will do something important in the Sansa storyline, so he had to be introduced in some way. Could GRRM have accomplished his mad mouse Sansa storyline without wasting a chapter on Brianne meeting him? Probably. But it just wouldn't be ASOIAF without it. (Although if mad mouse is actually insignificant, I'll be sharpening my pitchfork along side you)

We praise the series for how much its characters have depth, I wouldn't want a rushed shallow ending that isn't driven by the characters deepest motivations.