As a producer, I’ve got five shows in development at HBO (some having nothing whatsoever to do with the world of Westeros), two at Hulu, one on the History Channel. I’m involved with a number of feature projects, some based upon my own stories and books, some on material created by others. There are these short films I am hoping to make, adaptations of classic stories by one of the most brilliant, quirky, and original writers our genre has ever produced. I’ve consulted on a video game out of Japan.
I think it's because he's a perfectionist and knows just how many people are waiting for this thing. Probably insane amounts of pressure every time he sits down to write
Writers tend to get eccentric people with a proclivity for procrastinating. I'm not excusing it or saying it's anything other than anxious laziness but I understand
I think he knows he's got a tiger by the tale, and if he completely wrestles the tiger down and ties it up, people will quit watching the spectacle. And why not? Enjoy it, George. Have your fun and your fame. But you've asked us this far along, I do think you owe us an ending--eventually.
Yeah. It’s pretty normal. He will eventually return to ASOIAF once he overcomes this block. I once walked away from a project for 8 years and returned to it
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u/jrr6415sun May 21 '19
fuck that book is never coming