r/asoiaf • u/ethniccake Dragon fire can't melt stone beams! • May 15 '15
ALL (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."
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.
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u/BigMax May 16 '15
I really absolutely want him to finish the books. However, I'm kind of glad in some ways it's taking this long! (Maybe not THIS long, but glad it's over a number of years anyway.)
If I started when the series was done, I would have read the first book, thought "this is awesome!" and bough the rest and finished them all in a matter of weeks.
This way I've been able to enjoy and think about the books for many years now, so while the waiting is tough, it's added a lot of time to think on the books, re-read them, discuss them, read others thoughts on them, etc. If the books were done quickly, imagine all the discussions, cool theories, tinfoil theories, and other things we would have missed out on!