>It's never coming
Good. BoNers (book nerds) shit up every GOT thread.
Yeah, we get it, you gays wasted your life reading something that got overruled by tv show canon. Don't cry about it here, go back to Cinemaphile with all the other annoying losers.
Based on that one Preston Jacobs video analyzing his updates, he probably didn’t even start Winds until lockdown; all previous material was pre-existing overflow from Dance
Well, were you ever a bestselling (and decent quick) writer beforehand?
I would love to write a novel but how do stop from finding comfy threads and wasting hours making shit posts to bump them with while fricking off on youtube or search folder after folder for the perfect reaction image?
Dedicate a sacrosanct 15 minutes to writing (or outlining at first) a day, do that for a week, then make it 30 minutes, repeat until you’re at ~4 hours / day after several months. Then maintain it!
You can still do that stuff - but at night after all the stuff you *actually* want to do is finished. You need to do the most important things to you as soon as you wake up. That's how you ingrain the habit, and soon you'll find there's not a single day where you haven't spent at least SOME time working on your passion.
Consistency is far more important than intensity. Slow is steady and steady is fast.
You will never be a real writer. You have no talent, you have no imagination, you have no insight. You are a pretentious man twisted by greed and vanity into a crude mockery of literary aspirations.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your tedious attempts to be witty behind closed doors.
Readers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of analysis have allowed critics to sniff out pseuds with incredible efficiency. Even hacks who “sell” seem uncanny and unnatural to a reader. Your sentence structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a contract, the audience will toss your book in the trash the second they get a glance at your stilted, awkward prose.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it just needs a little more editing before you can start looking for an agent, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and pull a DFW. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to tell you that your latest story was "good, but don't you think you should start getting serious about your future?" They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and no passerby for the rest of eternity will ever know that you used to refer to yourself with two first initials. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a self-pub that is unmistakably cringe.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
just start doing something remotely productive, the wheel of motivation can be entered at any point. motivation leads to action which leads to an out come which leads to clarity which leads to desire which leads to motivation.
if you don't have the motivation, begin with action regarding something related, and the motivation will ensue.
other wise, get used to doing things when you don't want to, "discipline is doing something you hate, like you love it"
literally just open the word dock in front of you and just have it open and put on a timer for twenty minutes, work for twenty minutes, then take a five minute break.
That's not possible to do in America. Low and middle income people in America pay about the same taxes as euros but we have no safety net at all. We're pretty much a 3rd world nation with how shitty the wealth disparity is.
You will never be a real writer. You have no talent, you have no imagination, you have no insight. You are a pretentious man twisted by greed and vanity into a crude mockery of literary aspirations.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your tedious attempts to be witty behind closed doors.
Readers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of analysis have allowed critics to sniff out pseuds with incredible efficiency. Even hacks who “sell” seem uncanny and unnatural to a reader. Your sentence structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a contract, the audience will toss your book in the trash the second they get a glance at your stilted, awkward prose.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it just needs a little more editing before you can start looking for an agent, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and pull a DFW. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to tell you that your latest story was "good, but don't you think you should start getting serious about your future?" They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and no passerby for the rest of eternity will ever know that you used to refer to yourself with two first initials. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a self-pub that is unmistakably cringe.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
12 years of neetdom here. >Be barely good at art >Decide I'm going to get good and practice hard >Barely practice at all. >Can't maintain a schedule. >No discipline. >After a decade or so, finally start to get somewhat competent. >Starting to enjoy learning art as much as doing art. >Skill levels up a lot in the last couple years >Start to think "I'm going to make it". >A bunch of new AIs suddenly come out and make my art irrelevant.
Ouch. It hurts.
Started doing blender last year. The first few months were exciting. But now I'm just getting frustrated at the limitations 3D presents. I didn't realize how inaccurate bones and rigging actually is. But now that I'm doing it, I'm getting annoyed that I can't give my characters a real sense of mass. There's a shit ton of other technical hurdles just to get basic stuff done. Like, I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to animate veganas and buttholes. Because they deform so much, there's a lot of folds and flaps, and they're all in a very tight area. How does one manage to make it look realistic with collision and physics? How do you model such a tight zone without making all the parts clip into each other or collapse?
It's going to take me more years to get good at this, and in the end, it will just look like the same puppety inorganic animation that everyone else is doing. It won't actually be good.
AIs are already starting to be used for modelling as well. So by the time I'm good, AI modelling and AI animation will have taken it to the next level.
>write a novel because I did well and was praised by literature teachers/professors my whole life >acknowledge I'm not Ernest Hemingway so a standard hero's journey fantasy adventure >acknowledge I'll probably never achieve publication but would like to share it with a few friends on the internet and maybe my mom >send it to a beta reader who completely annihilates it and me and stops just short of telling me I'm ignorant/stupid >completely lose confidence, a year and a half later I haven't touched it since
I wish I had self-confidence. I've had people say to my face my stuff wasn't worth reading but something about her tearing the whole thing to shreds hit me on another level. Sadly writing was my only hobby outside of reading and video games.
You will never be a real writer. You have no talent, you have no imagination, you have no insight. You are a pretentious man twisted by greed and vanity into a crude mockery of literary aspirations.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your tedious attempts to be witty behind closed doors.
Readers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of analysis have allowed critics to sniff out pseuds with incredible efficiency. Even hacks who “sell” seem uncanny and unnatural to a reader. Your sentence structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a contract, the audience will toss your book in the trash the second they get a glance at your stilted, awkward prose.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it just needs a little more editing before you can start looking for an agent, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and pull a DFW. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to tell you that your latest story was "good, but don't you think you should start getting serious about your future?" They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and no passerby for the rest of eternity will ever know that you used to refer to yourself with two first initials. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a self-pub that is unmistakably cringe.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
put it on amazon
I make a nice passive income from books that I guarantee are worse than yours and I know they are worse because it sounds like you put some spirit in. Sometimes I just plagiarise and swap words around. Sometimes I just rip off episodes of obscure TV shows and put them down at a minimum of 3k words/day.
Is it actually easy to self-publish on Amazon? Do they have very strict rules, formatting and all that jazz? Also, how long does the work have to be? I've got a story of my own, around 50-60k words, half edited, half under rewrites. Was just wondering where is the best place to set it up...
Self publishing on ebook sites could cost you more. Amazon basically takes a cut and wants you to stay exclusive for some times to amazon only.
Thanks for the replies, I'm gonna probably look into it way more seriously. I can then also say the factually correct thing of being a published author.
I'm on Wattpad atm, but getting like 30 reads for the week it's been up. I had 50x more reads on the beta version of the story on the literotica. Probably keeping it there until I have the needed word count to put it up on amazon.
Dude. There are so many stories out there and most of them are crap. Even famous works and authors have crap thats famous. Sometimes hype and nostalgia cloud the senses. Sometimes its just the flair, the right times or the right audience that needs to read your book. As long as your structure is solid and your story has a point, is interesting to read ... it all comes down to subjectivity. Put it on Amazon or self publish it on ebook sites.
You have to understand that people who critique others works and dont write themselves tend to put certain things to an unrealistic standard. Look at Terry Pratchett. Overall a good read, but his books and writing have many flaws. They are not in the way of enjoying his books, but writers and fans don't allow any criticism about him or his writing. Older, long dead authors are put on a pedestral and if you actually read their stories you would think, if this was made today, it would not gain that much recognition. A huge part of writing with success is to ignore the chance of failing, enjoying what you do and doing it with integritiy. All of which GRR Martin forgot. You have no excuse not to get your shit out there, because there ARE people who would enjoy your work. Good luck.
I'm like 50k words in and is been 2 years. When I started I wasnt sure how it would end and had to go back through it once already. Ill keep working on it, sure it may suck but I would rather try then die unsatisfied. Just like write.
Being a fat autist who suddenly has more money than he knows what to do with.
>go to cons to have everyone clap at you and frick cosplay girls >have a turbo autismo wolf sanctuary >frick primo Ukrainian prostitutes >shitpost about the JEST of all football teams on your blog >refuse to use a modern computer and instead use some ancient relic running windows 3.1 or something and an equally archaic word processor >write other books nobody gives a frick about
He won't live to release anything. Let alone two more books. Just accept that fact and move on, anon
Yeah. Only thing he is missing is straight up admitting it and telling fans to frick off. Can't do that 'cause I suppose it would kill his brand, and he does like being famous.
The thing is I don't care for his work at all, so what I don't get is why does he not pay someone to ghostwrite the rest? He basically already did once with the show. Hell he could even be honest about it and have them attributed GRRM and Ghostwriter. Literally no-one would care. Unless he really does despise his fans and want to give them the finger...
>The thing is I don't care for his work at all, so what I don't get is why does he not pay someone to ghostwrite the rest?
Because he doesn't need the money a new book would make. It's purely a passion project for him. Getting a ghostwriter to do it would be dishonest.
He had those two autists Elio and Linda ghostwrite A World of Ice & Fire and it sucks so hard. It shit up the wiki with "some said" and "others said" all over the place now because that book gets referenced in it.
Being a fat autist who suddenly has more money than he knows what to do with.
>go to cons to have everyone clap at you and frick cosplay girls >have a turbo autismo wolf sanctuary >frick primo Ukrainian prostitutes >shitpost about the JEST of all football teams on your blog >refuse to use a modern computer and instead use some ancient relic running windows 3.1 or something and an equally archaic word processor >write other books nobody gives a frick about
He won't live to release anything. Let alone two more books. Just accept that fact and move on, anon
>George Martin won't finish Winds of Winter because he's too busy hiring Ukrainian girls to film getting KNOTTED by wolves in 4K
i respect that.
I doubt a guy that fat can even wipe his ass. Do we know he fricked cosplay girls? Anyone of them admit to it? Or is this one of those stupid memes that nerds like?
>go to cons to have everyone clap at you and frick cosplay girls >frick primo Ukrainian prostitutes
He's 74 years old and at least 100 pounds overweight. He hasn't seen his "pink mast" in a long, long time. I guarantee he isn't fricking anybody. >shitpost about the JEST of all football teams on your blog >an equally archaic word processor
This is actually based. Word processing software from the 1990's is a frickton better than the crap that's being pushed nowadays.
>i cant really be mad at him, dude just wants to live the good life some more
I'm not mad at him either - I'm just pointing out that the fat frick having sex with anyone is a ridiculous meme. Shit, I'm actually glad he won't be finishing the books. That saves me the time I'd otherwise spend reading what undoubtedly would have turned out to be a disappointing pile of steaming turds.
He's an elderly, obese slob who probably wipes his ass with a sponge on the end of a stick. Literally - and I really mean literally - imagine the smell. Even if he's still able to get it up, the only women willing to frick him would be blown-out crack prostitutes in their 50's. It doesn't matter how much money he has, facts are facts.
Black person, you're absolutely moronic if you think there aren't 10/10 escorts out there willing to jump on a wiener for the right price. Women do all kinds of way more disgusting shit for the right price. He's just a fat frick, that's literally nothing special. You can find gorgeous women fricking fat fricks in porn all over if you want.
10/10 women, escorts or otherwise, don't frick morbidly obese senior citizens with hygiene problems. They don't need to; there's plenty of middle-aged simps around. GRRRRRM's only choice, provided he can still get it up (which is doubtful at his age), are late middle-aged crack prostitutes. Sorry to burst your incel bubble, but that's the truth.
>How do you fail to complete a book in a 2 year lockdown?
Because he's not working on it. He's doing lore books, which is just sperging ideas without needing to deal with the drudgery of making plots actually work or having prose actually flow. His whole schtick was writing scenes and now he's basically excused himself from doing that entirely.
As for Winds, he almost certainly scrapped what he had in 2019 after GoT ended with the final reveals and just never fully resumed it.
He's a pussy and got cold feet when everyone hate it his original ending(the one we saw on HBO). He's never going to finish it because he's afraid of criticism.
>He's a pussy and got cold feet when everyone hate it his original ending(the one we saw on HBO). He's never going to finish it because he's afraid of criticism.
This is probably it. Seeing the show go from the top of the world to the bottom of the fish tank demoralized him completely. The public collectively memory holed themselves regarding the ending and the show and don't want to remember it anymore. No point in pouring more of his now very limited time before he croaks into the book when he could be buttering up another lobster.
Yep. This is a frequently overlooked observation. How many obese writers are out there? Not many. I can think of a few who could lose a few pounds but most are actually reasonably fit. It turns out there is a lot of crossover between those working habits and those eating habits. You see a lot of fat frick fans but not many fat authors.
I lost 48 pounds since March 2020 when covid hit the fan. How the frick is he still this fat?
All he has to do is watch his portion control, eat a balanced diet, drink only water, and GRRM can easily shed 50 or more pounds. And this is without exercise.
>has thousands of pages full of story he has to remember and needs to continue, probably doesn't even like half the plots he created but it stuck with them, way more difficult than just a blank page >saw the reaction to the TV show ending >old man now
it will never be finished
The story hasn't even reached the halfway point in the books. All of the storylines are still spiraling outward away from the beginning. It's worse than he hasn't nailed the ending. He hasn't even figured out how to stop making it worse by making it bigger. He hasnt pivoted the characters/storylines back towards a conclusion. Acting like there are only two books left is ridiculous unless he's about to abruptly kill-off a few major ones.
You have to be a huge hack, that only got sucesssful for reaching an incredibly low bar and getting lucky by having a huge network decide to pick up and then further milk your ok at best fantasy world.
Maybe but he won't be able to. He laid way too many story threads and won't be able to tie them up without really just lazily killing characters off like the show did.
Nobody. The fat frick already said that his will contains a passage that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies, all mansucirpts and notes burned away and that nobody is allowed to touch his life's work again.
Preston's version will never be anything except fanfiction. I like the guy, but he's pretty delusional at times, and seems to lack the ability to understand the irrationality of humans. He will never understand why some characters just do stupid or impulsive shit sometimes.
Also, to be more accurate: Preston is gathering writings from multiple fans, and stitching them together. So he's more editor than writer.
>his will contains a passage that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies, all mansucirpts and notes burned away and that nobody is allowed to touch his life's work again
That's just a bullshit rumor I think.
>that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies
Shit like this is always just media hype. He wants to seem like some auteur with integrity, you can bet he's wanking it to the idea of people thinking that about him. He loves the idea of being an author more than he likes actually writing.
Maybe by the time he's dead there's a proper novel-writing AI out, some GPT-5 that's able to capture long-range multi-novel-length structure. (GPT-3 can't--its context windows is tiny.)
Some fantasy writer could then write a proper continuation using it.
>Usually Brandon Sanderson gets that beat.
Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and would not write GRRM's smut. Also, his prose is significantly worse than GRRM's. He's popular because he's prolific, DEPENDABLE, and has a strong internet presence, not because his books are actually any good.
Real talk: I dont blame GURM for getting bored with ASOIAF, it happens, sometimes the inspiration just goes away
But why not just get someone to ghostwrite it for you? GURM has enough funds and support of the publisher to have 6 different versions of WoW on his desk by monday, literally just pick one which feels best and slap your name on it. Stephen King clearly does it.
unfinished stories don't have a chance to disappoint you with the ending. part of me thinks Martin got real spooked by how fast people turned on his series after the GoT finale. probably doesn't wanna risk a repeat he'll be held more accountable for by hiring a ghostwriter.
I don't get why he would be spooked tho. Like, it's TV. There wasn't enough time to build up to the ending properly so we couldn't digest it at all. A book is a whole other thing....he could fricking redeem the TV show ending by having the space to build up to a more believable ending. I personally didn't believe the Dany thing, burning down kings landing. That seemed very out of nowhere. But he could make that work in a freaking book
At this point I don't care about the books, all I want is for the fat frick to ADMIT that he won't finish them. Just say it, show some spine for once in your life and say "I'd rather frick around as a millionaire than spend my days writing". This fricking stalling going "Oh, I'm working veeeery hard on it, no I don't have any progress updates, maybe next year but I shouldn't say too much nuff said ;)" is the shit that actually makes me despise him.
Virgil didnt finish Aeneid
Proust didn't finish In Search of Lost Time
Byron didn't finish Don Juan
Jordan didn't finish Wheel of Time
Miura didn't finish Berserk
Dying and leaving your fans with blue balls is a Chad path to immortality
It doens't matter if you finish it but you should be trying to the end if you really believe in it and its your seminal work. I suspect the examples you gave anguished over it till their dying day.
>Virgil didnt finish Aeneid
Virgil died of disease and requested it be burned >Proust didn't finish In Search of Lost Time
Died of illness >Byron didn't finish Don Juan
Died of fever >Jordan didn't finish Wheel of Time
Died of Cardiac Amyloidosis, was never going to live long >Miura didn't finish Berserk
Died suddenly due to Aortic Dissection
Every one of those people died due to illness and their eventual deaths were quite sudden.
What is Martin's excuse going to be after 11 years of treading water?
He's more like Douglas Addams, who spent the rest of his life insisting he would write a 6th Hitchhikers book but just had someone else write it with his notes after he died.
Miura was trying but that didn't stop him from being constantly shat on for his hiatus and the constant jokes about idolmaster that people unironically started believing
what remaining incentive does this guy have to finish his book? he's already rich and famous, HBO keep writing new shit for him, why wouldn't he just watch TV and get his wiener sucked all day?
Literally if people are bored of their work they should just wrap it up so that people won’t be b***hing at them forever instead of going off to do something else and risking the chance of dying. I
>write some crappy fantasy series in the 90s >it has a bit more mature content and isn’t horribly generic, so get some success >HBO wants to capitalize on the fantasy market opened by Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter >they rummage around in bargain bins >find a fantasy series that has sex and curse words, perfect for their more mature market >GRRM now making millions hand over fist from his little book series >show is the biggest show on television and becomes cultural phenomenon
Hey got a golden ticket and is riding it out. He probably never expected to get past the first book and had to make them up as he went along to pay the bills.
That story where he only agreed to let Dumb and Dimber make the show if they correctly guessed who Jon Snows parents were to see if they were true fans is the most obvious bullshit PR marketing lie. GRRM probably came in his draws the moment he heard HBO wanted to talk to him and D&D never read shit nor cared about it. They probably had some interns read each book and then break it down into an abridged version.
I get that everyone on here has to be a contrarian homosexual but it’s really not a crappy fantasy series. GRRM has talent but is too lazy to finish his work.
This is completely wrong. HBO did not go looking for GOT. D&D took it to them. Also, GRRM never thought it would get past the multiple hurdles to make it to series. He thought he was just selling the options. Imagine his shark when he breathes a sigh of relief after the original pilot is shit and then they decide against the odds to make a second pilot and it's great. He's probably never fully accepted that that actually happened and that's why he can't finish the books. He's just been on this wild ride with HBO that was never supposed to happen.
he knows at this point he is never going to write an ending that will satisfy most fans, so he's going to let the fans keep hoping that he will write something better than the tv series.
he knows his planned ending doesn't work because of the show, and is too old to just completely rework the final act, so he's just dithering over the book before that, knowing he'll never finish the next himself.
I think the ending *can* work though; it's just that D&D wanted to end the show and never developed the plot threads properly (such as with Bran, Jon/Dany)
Either way, I do agree he's just milking fans with a promise of a book coming so he can keep making money
The alternative would be a disastrous release, thus killing hype for the spinoffs as well
No it wasn't. GRRM talks about how he won't change much of anything now, because it's important to give the proper pay offs to what has been foreshadowed. The fact is: Dany going crazy and burning King's Landing hasn't been properly foreshadowed in either book or show. D&D tried to hamfist a losing desperate Dany plot at the very end of the story, and nobody bought into it, that's why it got panned. George was never going to make such a mistake.
Literally half of the last book is just repeating "Targs go mad, Dany'smad, get it" while she's burning children alive. How the frick did people actually miss that.
Here's a direct quote: >“Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
The takeaway here, is that there is a high chance, but you have to wait and see how it plays out. George instills the *fear* that Dany *might* become mad. And holding your breath is a form of suspense. So the reader is being held in great suspense, waiting to see if Dany goes mad or not.
However, she won't because of all the other stuff that indicates she's mastering her anger, where other characters have failed. She's making people love her, where other characters have been ruling through fear.
Dany is the good side to Viserys's bad side.
Dany is the good side to Cersei's bad side. Cersei shows a lot of mad Targaryen symbolism. most notably the way she uses wildfire to burn down the tower. She's a "what if" scenario for a mad Dany. But at a much smaller scale.
Dany is the good side to Young Griff's bad side. This part is yet to be seen. But Young Griff has already shown signs of having a temper and taking insults poorly. He's the one going to tilt into madness when he realizes that everything he was groomed to be is threatened to be taken away from him by Dany.
What if they both go mad? It's just that Daenerys is a commentary that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
She's supposed to represent what Sauron looks like from the POV of people who aren't aware of her story like the readers do. As stupid as Dumb & Dumber were, they rightfully depicted how Daenerys' army was a force of foreign invaders.
Look at what she has:
- 3 vicious dragons that will burn everything in their path
- Dothraki who've pillaged, raped, murdered, enslaved, and turned farmland into grassland
- Unsullied who will obey her every command without question and they fervently believe in her as a goddess figure
- Sellswords who are not going to be nice to any citizens of cities and towns they besiege regardless if Daenerys tries to discipline them
- And she's probably gonna get Victarion's Ironborn who are notorious for reaving for generations
Does this look like a shining princess-in-exile coming to liberate a land she has no idea about or never stepped foot in?
Look at the 163 masters she crucified in Meereen. She even justifies it to herself. She may not even go full-out Targ mad; she's even worse; a savior who believes in her own righteousness regardless of what she does.
>“One hundred and sixty-three,” she answered.
>She had them nailed to wooden posts around the plaza, each man pointing at the next. The anger was fierce and hot inside her when she gave the command; it made her feel like an avenging dragon. But later, when she passed the men dying on the posts, when she heard their moans and smelled their bowels and blood . . .
>Dany put the glass aside, frowning. It was just. It was. I did it for the children.
I forget who it was, but it was some character who lists all of the things she has in a bad light. Because yes, to them it does appear bad. And once again, George is instilling fear and suspense.
The fact that Dany appears like an invading force will be the cause of conflict between her and Westeros and Griff. But it won't be the truth of it. Dany made a rash decision dealing with the masters. But since then, she's begun to rethink her decisions, and now she's trying more diplomatic approaches. She wasn't even necessarily wrong for what she did. It was just callus, and potentially the cause of much conflict down the road. Meereen is a huge learning experience for her. And so she's going to make a lot of faults there, learn and grow. By trial and error, she will become a good Queen with the potential to unify everyone. But she's going to be tragically seen as an invading force who needs to be put down. Her end will be tragic because of what could have been. Not because she went mad.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I see Daenerys as a case study on what GRRM said in an interview about Aragorn.
>“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”
I know Cinemaphile likes to shit on that tax policy blurb, but what interests me more is the point about the orcs. Do you genocide an entire race even its infants because of the potential threat they can cause on Middle Earth.
The same applies to the hard decisions that Daenerys, Jon, and Stannis make throughout the series. Daenerys staying in Meereen is her test. I give her credit that she needs to learn how to rule and so far, it's not going well for her. How she deals with the Meereenese knot is what will foreshadow how she will approach Westeros.
As much as people complain about Jon being a Gary Stu, his decisions in A Dance of Dragons show that he's all too human. He's more savvy than Ned, but he made a lot of short-sighted decisions like sending away his closest allies, alienating his fellow brothers, and most importantly, deciding to march onto the Dreadfort. When he got fragged by his fellow Watchmen, that's something Daenerys never dealt with; the consequences of her actions.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>How she deals with the Meereenese knot is what will foreshadow how she will approach Westeros.
True. But remember your previous quote. Dany killed the master in order to save the babies. She's not going to genocide a whole people for "the greater good." She decides that those in power need to be removed. She only did it in such a way that she made a whole lot of enemies. She could have handled it better. But stopping slavery is tough because how exactly do you "transition" out of slavery? In almost all cases, slavery ends with a fight and a lot of people dying.
But I think that Dany is paying for her mistakes now. Sure, she hasn't died, but she's been forced to flee to the wastes after a violent uprising. And now she's mostly helpless in the desert, and about to be captured by a bunch of violent savages to be imprisoned until the day she dies. If that's not consequences, I don't know what is.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What happens when she takes King's Landing and the smallfolk turn hostile to her and her army? Or half the lords refuse to submit? Does she go all Fire & Blood to browbeat them? Burn the lord and force their children to bend the knee?
As bad as Season 7 was, the Eastwatch episode where Randyll Tarly calls out Daenerys for being a foreign invader and not his Queen is what would likey happen. And the aftermath where Randyll and his son Dickon get incinerated and the Westerland army kneeling out of fear.
And of course we're gonna have Young Griff marry Arianne Martell and he probably seizes a good chunk of Westeros. As Tyrion pointed out, Faegon has the better claim to the throne than Dany and she won't be pleased.
Then there's Stannis. She's gonna want to burn the Usurper's brother regardless that he's trying to defend the realm against the Others.
And she's hardly helpless when she had a massive flying weapon of mass destruction. Sure she has diarrhea and feeling under the weather, but chances are she's going to have those Khals join her too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>What happens when she takes King's Landing and the smallfolk turn hostile to her and her army? Or half the lords refuse to submit? Does she go all Fire & Blood to browbeat them? Burn the lord and force their children to bend the knee?
This is exactly her experiences are forcing her to answer. These are the questions that Griff has never been challenged on. What is FAEGON'S tax policy? What's to stop him from becoming mad and a terrible king? This random hidden away Prince is supposed to be the savior of the kingdom? Think about it. Dany has faults, sure. It's part of who she is as a Targaryen, and just being a young inexperienced girl. But Griff? More like Grift. He's the one George is setting up to fall. Dany just learned that she can't expect love as a given. But Griff still has the idea that he's due love because of who he is. And you know what? He might make it rather far. He might earn the respect of the men around him. But again, what's to stop him from becoming mad? He gets propped up as the rightful king, but the right king. If you catch my meaning.
Stannis is unloved. He's making too many enemies with his crazy blood-fire cult. When or if he's ever brought down, nobody but is small sect of zealots will care.
>but chances are she's going to have those Khals join her too.
That's the most likely outcome. But she's going to reform them all. She's going to force them to stop pillaging, force the ironborn to stop pillaging too, and be a uniting force. The *idea* that she is mad, is what will cause people to work against her. And so despite all the good intentions, she will probably die young, and be remembered as a mad targaryen queen. But that will all be a fabrication written by the Maesters. Everyone else went mad.
2 years ago
Anonymous
they didn't have the resources to kill everything that moved before bombs etc.
they could burn all the crops, if orcs have crops, try to starve them - spread disease there, and sit back and wait.
but yes, if you have a threat, you do your best to wipe it out or render it completely powerless.
orcs aren't human, orcs seem to be a chaotic form of animal,
Being a lazy fat fricking degenerate who wrote himself into a corner. Winds has to be at least twice as long as any other previous books to resolve all the plotlines. This fat frick ran out of creative juice and inherited an absolute mess of plotlines from his younger, better self.
>iirc didn't he initially plan a big timeskip for the books and then later abandon that idea? Seems like he's winging it to some extent.
He had a big autistic hang-up over timeskips that led to the problem he's in now. He then watched as HBO did timeskips effortlessly and they haven't been perfect but the story moves on just fine. I think he realizes he fricked up massively and he doesn't want to dig himself out of a hole that was a mistake to begin with so he's stalling by doing other things.
HBO didn't do time skips though, unless you mean in HOTD. The story has the same pacing as the books, but the kid actors just inexplicably look older every year.
The first 5ish seasons of the show take place over 2 years, just like the books.
>Usually Brandon Sanderson gets that beat.
Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and would not write GRRM's smut. Also, his prose is significantly worse than GRRM's. He's popular because he's prolific, DEPENDABLE, and has a strong internet presence, not because his books are actually any good.
Yeah I read The Way of Kings and honestly it sucked major ass. Way too slow, the prose is weak, the payoff at the end was hardly worth the slog. And the constant backstabbing and le epic twists from the advisor guy to the king sucked.
>HBO didn't do time skips though, unless you mean in HOTD.
They did in a round-about way that had the same effect, such as Bran disappearing for an entire season. Also, a lot of the fast traveling with defacto time skipping. GRRM's entire rationale for not doing them was that he couldn't believe nothing would happen to these characters during the interim and that applies to what HBO did. It's made even worse when it becomes obvious that Arya's arc would have been MUCH more believable had they entirely skipped her training in Braavos. Had she walked into the house of black and white or whatever with Jaquen and then she emerges a season later as the uber assasin that she was, it still wouldn't have been great but it would have been much less cringe. Watching her get hit with a stick 1000 times and then miraculously survive a stabbing didn't help.
Guy finally made it in life in his 70s, he knows he has limited time left on Earth so he'd rather spend it living it up than half of it chained to a keyboard in a dimly lit room writing fiction for homosexuals who are just waiting to rip it apart anyway, after the story was ruined by a shit adaptation
I read the first book in grade 8, that was when it first came out in 96. I'll be 40 this year. It's taking him a life time to write low brow medieval porn.
The fat man has no idea how to end the series without pissing off his fanbase. In a way he was clever to give D&D the Cliff Notes of the ending. GRRM was having them beta-test his ideas. The complete and utter destruction that Season 8 did GOT made George realize he has to rewrite everything.
However, the 2 year pandemic made him realize there's no way he can finish up the story in 2 books AND have a conclusion that secures his legacy as the US Tolkien.
So he's just bullshitting and wasting time with pseudo-history like Fire & Blood. How the frick can people read that shit? It's not even a real storyline, just archaic renditions of lore presented as history.
The Fat Man can at least finish Dunk & Egg. That's a much easier task and I'd be fine with that series concluding with the Tragedy at Summerhall than whatever happens in ASOIAF.
After publishing 12 erotic short stories I'm now finally going to write an actual full length romantic book about a billionaire and his virgin secretary.
Some youtuber did a breakdown of the progress he's made and apparently he had barely started writing before the lockdown, and so he did make a lot of progress during the lockdown but not enough to finish since it's the longest book in the series and he was only starting with a few leftover chapters from ADWD.
>write successful books that have sloppy edges based on cliche perceptions of medieval times and historical stuff you barely understand >add dicks, dongs, tiddays and lotta rape and killing to it, shake and stirr (its called the GRR Martini) >write on an old computer with an OS older than yourself, with a work attitude as bad as your health >bam, get a sweet TV deal >tell the producers of the show how the story ends, they just need more seasons to end it properly >the producers fast pace and dunk it hard >nobody liked the ending anyways >wrote yourself into a corner, have no other ideas >instead you enjoy the easy fame, money and prostitutes you get at conventions, interviews, etc >instead of ending the story yourself and saving your literary legacy, you rant on twitter all day long >keep on writing stuff nobody asked for, or has any interest in >tell the internet you are content with fricking up your lifes work and name because "you dont have much time left, i rather write something i enjoy"
Thats how you don't finish a book in 2 years. He will never finish it and the one after that neither
>begins and completed one of the best sci-fi series in 10 books within 5 years. >compete television adaption of your work that doesn’t jump the shark >story is held together by its brilliant characters and plot rather than gratuitous violence and sex.
My wife writes Fantasy. Big books. At a World Fantasy Con in Chicago. , 1995, he asked her what was the most important thing to do when you write multi-volume books. She told him you have to outline. The whole series. That way you don’t get writer’s block. He didn’t take her advice.
>That way you don’t get writer’s block. He didn’t take her advice.
He changed the whole story outline if you look at his initial draft that he sent to publishing.
The only way he can finish the series in 2 novels is if TWOW and ADOS are each split into 2 parts. And each part is over 1000 pages. So in reality, he's gonna have to write 4 books worth of material to wrap it up.
Hes a good writer in the mechanical sense, not a very smart writer, or original. Just write generic fantasy, make it grimdark edgy with dongs dangling around, done.
he doesn't like working on it and as long as he has other shows to work on he as an excuse.
the one thing fans of a song of ice and fire can do to speed release time is boycott everything grr does that is not winds of winter.
if house of dragons get several season and more spin offs winds of winter will never be released in grr live time.
>more money than you know what to do with >already old and fat so probably wont live much longer >you could spend your remaining time enjoying the twilight of your life to the fullest >or you could sit behind a computer writting a book for a bunch of nerds
I would've done the same, dont know if he has children but I'd rather spent time with grandchildren, spending money giving them memories
Unironically it was the show.
He got a lot more famous and he started getting odd writing jobs and basically shoved aside WoW. Now any drive to do any writing is wasted on future projects Winds is never getting released.
He had a 9 year headstart before that lockdown too. It's never coming and he's clearly content with that fact, you should be by now too.
>It's never coming
Good. BoNers (book nerds) shit up every GOT thread.
Yeah, we get it, you gays wasted your life reading something that got overruled by tv show canon. Don't cry about it here, go back to Cinemaphile with all the other annoying losers.
>go back to Cinemaphile with all the other annoying losers.
people who read are le dumb.
More like he has 9 year olds giving him head
I've never written a single book and I've been a NEET for ten years.
Do you have any aspirations to be an author?
Based on that one Preston Jacobs video analyzing his updates, he probably didn’t even start Winds until lockdown; all previous material was pre-existing overflow from Dance
Well, were you ever a bestselling (and decent quick) writer beforehand?
15 years of uninterrupted neetdom
I'm at 14. You just have me beat, though i've been unemployed for 16 years.
I would love to write a novel but how do stop from finding comfy threads and wasting hours making shit posts to bump them with while fricking off on youtube or search folder after folder for the perfect reaction image?
Dedicate a sacrosanct 15 minutes to writing (or outlining at first) a day, do that for a week, then make it 30 minutes, repeat until you’re at ~4 hours / day after several months. Then maintain it!
I will try this
Wishing you luck anon!
You can still do that stuff - but at night after all the stuff you *actually* want to do is finished. You need to do the most important things to you as soon as you wake up. That's how you ingrain the habit, and soon you'll find there's not a single day where you haven't spent at least SOME time working on your passion.
Consistency is far more important than intensity. Slow is steady and steady is fast.
If I finish a story I will dedicate a thank you to anon for the encouragement and advice.
Start with short story ideas. They'll be easy to finish and motivate you to do more bigger ones.
You will never be a real writer. You have no talent, you have no imagination, you have no insight. You are a pretentious man twisted by greed and vanity into a crude mockery of literary aspirations.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your tedious attempts to be witty behind closed doors.
Readers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of analysis have allowed critics to sniff out pseuds with incredible efficiency. Even hacks who “sell” seem uncanny and unnatural to a reader. Your sentence structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a contract, the audience will toss your book in the trash the second they get a glance at your stilted, awkward prose.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it just needs a little more editing before you can start looking for an agent, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and pull a DFW. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to tell you that your latest story was "good, but don't you think you should start getting serious about your future?" They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and no passerby for the rest of eternity will ever know that you used to refer to yourself with two first initials. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a self-pub that is unmistakably cringe.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
Post your work
Hey wait a minute I recognize that penis
A savagely daring synthesis
underrated
That picture made me laugh way too hard
just start doing something remotely productive, the wheel of motivation can be entered at any point. motivation leads to action which leads to an out come which leads to clarity which leads to desire which leads to motivation.
if you don't have the motivation, begin with action regarding something related, and the motivation will ensue.
other wise, get used to doing things when you don't want to, "discipline is doing something you hate, like you love it"
literally just open the word dock in front of you and just have it open and put on a timer for twenty minutes, work for twenty minutes, then take a five minute break.
technically you cant enter at the outcome point
>The wheel of motivation can be entered at any point
This kind of shit only works on stupid people.
I'm only at 3
How do you guys survive without making money?
Simple. I leech. If anything happens to the tele or PC, I just read books.
>Dole bludge
>Apply for jobs you have zero prospects with
>Collect $20000 a year without working
That's not possible to do in America. Low and middle income people in America pay about the same taxes as euros but we have no safety net at all. We're pretty much a 3rd world nation with how shitty the wealth disparity is.
i make half that amount while working.
No way you're getting more than 12k p/a on the dole while having to look for jobs ya dopey illiterate c**t
Live with parents
Write how to be a neet book
No you won't be a writer cos you a c**t
Well you can start now and likely still beat fantasy to the finish line
12 years of neetdom here.
>Be barely good at art
>Decide I'm going to get good and practice hard
>Barely practice at all.
>Can't maintain a schedule.
>No discipline.
>After a decade or so, finally start to get somewhat competent.
>Starting to enjoy learning art as much as doing art.
>Skill levels up a lot in the last couple years
>Start to think "I'm going to make it".
>A bunch of new AIs suddenly come out and make my art irrelevant.
Ouch. It hurts.
The best thing you Can do is learn to animate blender porn. If you stick to just drawing you will have to draw furries and vore to make some money.
Started doing blender last year. The first few months were exciting. But now I'm just getting frustrated at the limitations 3D presents. I didn't realize how inaccurate bones and rigging actually is. But now that I'm doing it, I'm getting annoyed that I can't give my characters a real sense of mass. There's a shit ton of other technical hurdles just to get basic stuff done. Like, I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to animate veganas and buttholes. Because they deform so much, there's a lot of folds and flaps, and they're all in a very tight area. How does one manage to make it look realistic with collision and physics? How do you model such a tight zone without making all the parts clip into each other or collapse?
It's going to take me more years to get good at this, and in the end, it will just look like the same puppety inorganic animation that everyone else is doing. It won't actually be good.
AIs are already starting to be used for modelling as well. So by the time I'm good, AI modelling and AI animation will have taken it to the next level.
blender 2d using 3d as a way to trace and maintain perspective in more complicated scenarios.
also animation; since AI is probably decades away from animation being possible
Now thanks to AI us "idea guys" will be able to make art by ourselves.
Me 2 let's be friends
Inspired#4103
>write a novel because I did well and was praised by literature teachers/professors my whole life
>acknowledge I'm not Ernest Hemingway so a standard hero's journey fantasy adventure
>acknowledge I'll probably never achieve publication but would like to share it with a few friends on the internet and maybe my mom
>send it to a beta reader who completely annihilates it and me and stops just short of telling me I'm ignorant/stupid
>completely lose confidence, a year and a half later I haven't touched it since
I wish I had self-confidence. I've had people say to my face my stuff wasn't worth reading but something about her tearing the whole thing to shreds hit me on another level. Sadly writing was my only hobby outside of reading and video games.
Anon, even good artists produce piles of shit for every nugget of gold.
Wasn't Harry potter rejected and mocked by publishers when jk submitted her first drafts?
And now JK is rich and those publishers post threads about her work on Cinemaphile
Mad world
see:
>trusting a femoid
put it on amazon
I make a nice passive income from books that I guarantee are worse than yours and I know they are worse because it sounds like you put some spirit in. Sometimes I just plagiarise and swap words around. Sometimes I just rip off episodes of obscure TV shows and put them down at a minimum of 3k words/day.
Is it actually easy to self-publish on Amazon? Do they have very strict rules, formatting and all that jazz? Also, how long does the work have to be? I've got a story of my own, around 50-60k words, half edited, half under rewrites. Was just wondering where is the best place to set it up...
Ridiculously easy.
Thanks for the replies, I'm gonna probably look into it way more seriously. I can then also say the factually correct thing of being a published author.
I'm on Wattpad atm, but getting like 30 reads for the week it's been up. I had 50x more reads on the beta version of the story on the literotica. Probably keeping it there until I have the needed word count to put it up on amazon.
Go look it up. Amazon lists up all the rules.
Self publishing on ebook sites could cost you more. Amazon basically takes a cut and wants you to stay exclusive for some times to amazon only.
>wants you to stay exclusive for some times to amazon only.
This is optional and only if you put it into Amazon Prime.
>being put off by a woman
??????????????
Dude. There are so many stories out there and most of them are crap. Even famous works and authors have crap thats famous. Sometimes hype and nostalgia cloud the senses. Sometimes its just the flair, the right times or the right audience that needs to read your book. As long as your structure is solid and your story has a point, is interesting to read ... it all comes down to subjectivity. Put it on Amazon or self publish it on ebook sites.
You have to understand that people who critique others works and dont write themselves tend to put certain things to an unrealistic standard. Look at Terry Pratchett. Overall a good read, but his books and writing have many flaws. They are not in the way of enjoying his books, but writers and fans don't allow any criticism about him or his writing. Older, long dead authors are put on a pedestral and if you actually read their stories you would think, if this was made today, it would not gain that much recognition. A huge part of writing with success is to ignore the chance of failing, enjoying what you do and doing it with integritiy. All of which GRR Martin forgot. You have no excuse not to get your shit out there, because there ARE people who would enjoy your work. Good luck.
I'm like 50k words in and is been 2 years. When I started I wasnt sure how it would end and had to go back through it once already. Ill keep working on it, sure it may suck but I would rather try then die unsatisfied. Just like write.
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GRRM wouldn't use 'like' why are you such a moron anon
You dont know what I would use. I tell you, you are going to love the shitting scenes in this one.
DON'T FORGET TO POST THE FINAL PRODUCT ON Cinemaphile.
based
frick words and paper and shit
pencils
frick'em
I'm writing a novel about a NEET who spends 10 years trying to write a novel. It's called 'Getting NEET Done'.
Being a fat autist who suddenly has more money than he knows what to do with.
>go to cons to have everyone clap at you and frick cosplay girls
>have a turbo autismo wolf sanctuary
>frick primo Ukrainian prostitutes
>shitpost about the JEST of all football teams on your blog
>refuse to use a modern computer and instead use some ancient relic running windows 3.1 or something and an equally archaic word processor
>write other books nobody gives a frick about
He won't live to release anything. Let alone two more books. Just accept that fact and move on, anon
When describing him like this I actually like him.
Yeah. Only thing he is missing is straight up admitting it and telling fans to frick off. Can't do that 'cause I suppose it would kill his brand, and he does like being famous.
The thing is I don't care for his work at all, so what I don't get is why does he not pay someone to ghostwrite the rest? He basically already did once with the show. Hell he could even be honest about it and have them attributed GRRM and Ghostwriter. Literally no-one would care. Unless he really does despise his fans and want to give them the finger...
>The thing is I don't care for his work at all, so what I don't get is why does he not pay someone to ghostwrite the rest?
Because he doesn't need the money a new book would make. It's purely a passion project for him. Getting a ghostwriter to do it would be dishonest.
He had those two autists Elio and Linda ghostwrite A World of Ice & Fire and it sucks so hard. It shit up the wiki with "some said" and "others said" all over the place now because that book gets referenced in it.
Bro don't even read Fire and Blood if that bothers you.
isn't grum married?
>ukrainian prostitutes
qrd?
He fricked Shae's actress
She's Turkish from Germany
>from Germany
heh
>rich man fricked a literal prostitute
Unsurprising.
who hasnt?
Ew
He fricks hookers
sauce? I don't doubt it
>wolf sanctuary
Nothing wrong with that
>George Martin won't finish Winds of Winter because he's too busy hiring Ukrainian girls to film getting KNOTTED by wolves in 4K
i respect that.
he's not fricking anything being that old and fat, doubt viagra even works on his stubby
you'll be suprised how well modern medicine works.
You understand that he's LARPing about finishing the books, but don't understand that he's LARPing about having sex? Really?
>2010
I doubt a guy that fat can even wipe his ass. Do we know he fricked cosplay girls? Anyone of them admit to it? Or is this one of those stupid memes that nerds like?
>is this one of those stupid memes that nerds like?
Bingo
>go to cons to have everyone clap at you and frick cosplay girls
>frick primo Ukrainian prostitutes
He's 74 years old and at least 100 pounds overweight. He hasn't seen his "pink mast" in a long, long time. I guarantee he isn't fricking anybody.
>shitpost about the JEST of all football teams on your blog
>an equally archaic word processor
This is actually based. Word processing software from the 1990's is a frickton better than the crap that's being pushed nowadays.
i know he will never finish the books, but i cant really be mad at him, dude just wants to live the good life some more.
why the hell not.
>i cant really be mad at him, dude just wants to live the good life some more
I'm not mad at him either - I'm just pointing out that the fat frick having sex with anyone is a ridiculous meme. Shit, I'm actually glad he won't be finishing the books. That saves me the time I'd otherwise spend reading what undoubtedly would have turned out to be a disappointing pile of steaming turds.
If he's rich, women will frick him.
He's an elderly, obese slob who probably wipes his ass with a sponge on the end of a stick. Literally - and I really mean literally - imagine the smell. Even if he's still able to get it up, the only women willing to frick him would be blown-out crack prostitutes in their 50's. It doesn't matter how much money he has, facts are facts.
Black person, you're absolutely moronic if you think there aren't 10/10 escorts out there willing to jump on a wiener for the right price. Women do all kinds of way more disgusting shit for the right price. He's just a fat frick, that's literally nothing special. You can find gorgeous women fricking fat fricks in porn all over if you want.
10/10 women, escorts or otherwise, don't frick morbidly obese senior citizens with hygiene problems. They don't need to; there's plenty of middle-aged simps around. GRRRRRM's only choice, provided he can still get it up (which is doubtful at his age), are late middle-aged crack prostitutes. Sorry to burst your incel bubble, but that's the truth.
>How do you fail to complete a book in a 2 year lockdown?
Because he's not working on it. He's doing lore books, which is just sperging ideas without needing to deal with the drudgery of making plots actually work or having prose actually flow. His whole schtick was writing scenes and now he's basically excused himself from doing that entirely.
As for Winds, he almost certainly scrapped what he had in 2019 after GoT ended with the final reveals and just never fully resumed it.
3x an audiobook
He's a pussy and got cold feet when everyone hate it his original ending(the one we saw on HBO). He's never going to finish it because he's afraid of criticism.
>He's a pussy and got cold feet when everyone hate it his original ending(the one we saw on HBO). He's never going to finish it because he's afraid of criticism.
This is probably it. Seeing the show go from the top of the world to the bottom of the fish tank demoralized him completely. The public collectively memory holed themselves regarding the ending and the show and don't want to remember it anymore. No point in pouring more of his now very limited time before he croaks into the book when he could be buttering up another lobster.
no story outlines clearly worked out well for him
You can tell just from looking at his waistline that he has zero self-discipline.
Yep. This is a frequently overlooked observation. How many obese writers are out there? Not many. I can think of a few who could lose a few pounds but most are actually reasonably fit. It turns out there is a lot of crossover between those working habits and those eating habits. You see a lot of fat frick fans but not many fat authors.
I lost 48 pounds since March 2020 when covid hit the fan. How the frick is he still this fat?
All he has to do is watch his portion control, eat a balanced diet, drink only water, and GRRM can easily shed 50 or more pounds. And this is without exercise.
Truth
>has thousands of pages full of story he has to remember and needs to continue, probably doesn't even like half the plots he created but it stuck with them, way more difficult than just a blank page
>saw the reaction to the TV show ending
>old man now
it will never be finished
The story hasn't even reached the halfway point in the books. All of the storylines are still spiraling outward away from the beginning. It's worse than he hasn't nailed the ending. He hasn't even figured out how to stop making it worse by making it bigger. He hasnt pivoted the characters/storylines back towards a conclusion. Acting like there are only two books left is ridiculous unless he's about to abruptly kill-off a few major ones.
This. He doesn't know how to finish it. The last 2 books are proof.
FINISH THE FRICKING FARTS OF WINTER ALREADY
I really hope you aren't waiting on him op.
You have to be a huge hack, that only got sucesssful for reaching an incredibly low bar and getting lucky by having a huge network decide to pick up and then further milk your ok at best fantasy world.
I don't mind his books but he is extraordinarily lucky that his stories have a soap opera-ish quality that lends themselves really well to television.
Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if he's decided "frick it" and is wrapping up all the plot points in this book rather than the subsequent book
Maybe but he won't be able to. He laid way too many story threads and won't be able to tie them up without really just lazily killing characters off like the show did.
> In March 2022, Martin stated that he had made less progress in 2021 than in 2020, but emphasized that "'less' is not 'none'"
i am viscerally reminded of this scene from SpongeBob.
>but emphasized that "'less' is not 'none'"
Man, I should've told this to my teachers back in Elementary.
Who are they gonna hire to finish the books once he's gone?
>Resolves March next year
Nobody. The fat frick already said that his will contains a passage that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies, all mansucirpts and notes burned away and that nobody is allowed to touch his life's work again.
Isn't Preston writing WoW himself? He might finish it sooner than fatso.
Preston's version will never be anything except fanfiction. I like the guy, but he's pretty delusional at times, and seems to lack the ability to understand the irrationality of humans. He will never understand why some characters just do stupid or impulsive shit sometimes.
Also, to be more accurate: Preston is gathering writings from multiple fans, and stitching them together. So he's more editor than writer.
all his unpublished work, you mean? i can't imagine they're going to start burning GoT box sets when Martin dies.
>his will contains a passage that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies, all mansucirpts and notes burned away and that nobody is allowed to touch his life's work again
That's just a bullshit rumor I think.
>that all his work has to be destroyed when he dies
Shit like this is always just media hype. He wants to seem like some auteur with integrity, you can bet he's wanking it to the idea of people thinking that about him. He loves the idea of being an author more than he likes actually writing.
This is just a ruse to make people think that there were any manuscripts and notes in the first place.
I don't think there's anyone who is as autistic and as visceral as he is. It's not like with the Wheel of Time guy, where the guy slotted in easily
Maybe by the time he's dead there's a proper novel-writing AI out, some GPT-5 that's able to capture long-range multi-novel-length structure. (GPT-3 can't--its context windows is tiny.)
Some fantasy writer could then write a proper continuation using it.
Usually Brandon Sanderson gets that beat.
>Usually Brandon Sanderson gets that beat.
Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and would not write GRRM's smut. Also, his prose is significantly worse than GRRM's. He's popular because he's prolific, DEPENDABLE, and has a strong internet presence, not because his books are actually any good.
Abercombie?
Best fit would be Bakker but he probably doesn't have enough clout.
Real talk: I dont blame GURM for getting bored with ASOIAF, it happens, sometimes the inspiration just goes away
But why not just get someone to ghostwrite it for you? GURM has enough funds and support of the publisher to have 6 different versions of WoW on his desk by monday, literally just pick one which feels best and slap your name on it. Stephen King clearly does it.
unfinished stories don't have a chance to disappoint you with the ending. part of me thinks Martin got real spooked by how fast people turned on his series after the GoT finale. probably doesn't wanna risk a repeat he'll be held more accountable for by hiring a ghostwriter.
I don't get why he would be spooked tho. Like, it's TV. There wasn't enough time to build up to the ending properly so we couldn't digest it at all. A book is a whole other thing....he could fricking redeem the TV show ending by having the space to build up to a more believable ending. I personally didn't believe the Dany thing, burning down kings landing. That seemed very out of nowhere. But he could make that work in a freaking book
To what end? He's literally just doing a novelization at that point. Must be humiliating.
That's a good point....lol glad it's not me LOL
At this point I don't care about the books, all I want is for the fat frick to ADMIT that he won't finish them. Just say it, show some spine for once in your life and say "I'd rather frick around as a millionaire than spend my days writing". This fricking stalling going "Oh, I'm working veeeery hard on it, no I don't have any progress updates, maybe next year but I shouldn't say too much nuff said ;)" is the shit that actually makes me despise him.
He is pathetic. A song of ice and fire is his life's work and failing to try to finish it till his dying day is shameful for him.
Virgil didnt finish Aeneid
Proust didn't finish In Search of Lost Time
Byron didn't finish Don Juan
Jordan didn't finish Wheel of Time
Miura didn't finish Berserk
Dying and leaving your fans with blue balls is a Chad path to immortality
It doens't matter if you finish it but you should be trying to the end if you really believe in it and its your seminal work. I suspect the examples you gave anguished over it till their dying day.
>Virgil didnt finish Aeneid
Virgil died of disease and requested it be burned
>Proust didn't finish In Search of Lost Time
Died of illness
>Byron didn't finish Don Juan
Died of fever
>Jordan didn't finish Wheel of Time
Died of Cardiac Amyloidosis, was never going to live long
>Miura didn't finish Berserk
Died suddenly due to Aortic Dissection
Every one of those people died due to illness and their eventual deaths were quite sudden.
What is Martin's excuse going to be after 11 years of treading water?
>was never going to live long
Kind of a dick move to start epic fantasy series knowing that you don't have the lifespan to finish it eh
Didn't stop him from trying and he still completed 14 books in his series which is more than Martin ever did.
He's more like Douglas Addams, who spent the rest of his life insisting he would write a 6th Hitchhikers book but just had someone else write it with his notes after he died.
Adams should have ended the series after Life, the Universe and Everything in any case.
>What is Martin's excuse going to be after 11 years of treading water?
"come on you Jets!"
Virgil died trying to complete his work. All of those people died trying, in fact.
Miura was trying but that didn't stop him from being constantly shat on for his hiatus and the constant jokes about idolmaster that people unironically started believing
>How do you fail to complete a book in a 2 year lockdown?
Here's the cold, hard truth, kiddo: he doesn't want to write it.
what remaining incentive does this guy have to finish his book? he's already rich and famous, HBO keep writing new shit for him, why wouldn't he just watch TV and get his wiener sucked all day?
>74 year old obese man
I'd be genuinely impressed if his wiener can still get hard
he's got 74 year old boner money. all i'm saying is, i wouldn't bet my butthole that he can't get hard.
His books are a work of art it takes some time. Just trust the plan anon
Is there a single character that is more comllex than "subverted fantasy trope"?
Right?!? I'm barely literate and even I wrote a couple short stories!
Literally if people are bored of their work they should just wrap it up so that people won’t be b***hing at them forever instead of going off to do something else and risking the chance of dying. I
I haven’t even finished reading a single book since like 2015 lol
>write some crappy fantasy series in the 90s
>it has a bit more mature content and isn’t horribly generic, so get some success
>HBO wants to capitalize on the fantasy market opened by Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter
>they rummage around in bargain bins
>find a fantasy series that has sex and curse words, perfect for their more mature market
>GRRM now making millions hand over fist from his little book series
>show is the biggest show on television and becomes cultural phenomenon
Hey got a golden ticket and is riding it out. He probably never expected to get past the first book and had to make them up as he went along to pay the bills.
That story where he only agreed to let Dumb and Dimber make the show if they correctly guessed who Jon Snows parents were to see if they were true fans is the most obvious bullshit PR marketing lie. GRRM probably came in his draws the moment he heard HBO wanted to talk to him and D&D never read shit nor cared about it. They probably had some interns read each book and then break it down into an abridged version.
Didn't he get upset that people on the internet guessed Jon's heritage? It's obvious.
I get that everyone on here has to be a contrarian homosexual but it’s really not a crappy fantasy series. GRRM has talent but is too lazy to finish his work.
Hes a very good writer in a mechanical sense. Always solid. The topics he cover and how are a different story..
It's not crap, but not even remotely as good as the hype wants people to believe.
This is completely wrong. HBO did not go looking for GOT. D&D took it to them. Also, GRRM never thought it would get past the multiple hurdles to make it to series. He thought he was just selling the options. Imagine his shark when he breathes a sigh of relief after the original pilot is shit and then they decide against the odds to make a second pilot and it's great. He's probably never fully accepted that that actually happened and that's why he can't finish the books. He's just been on this wild ride with HBO that was never supposed to happen.
I think it's finished but he's not releasing it until his death.
Let me guess you think he's going to release both ASOIAF books when he dies? kek
Sometimes its better to not get an ending
kino
sometimes a mystery is preferable indeed
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kwab i hope they keep this ending for the show
I just want me some more Dunk and Egg.
what lockdown?
He's just lazy
he knows at this point he is never going to write an ending that will satisfy most fans, so he's going to let the fans keep hoping that he will write something better than the tv series.
he knows his planned ending doesn't work because of the show, and is too old to just completely rework the final act, so he's just dithering over the book before that, knowing he'll never finish the next himself.
I think the ending *can* work though; it's just that D&D wanted to end the show and never developed the plot threads properly (such as with Bran, Jon/Dany)
Either way, I do agree he's just milking fans with a promise of a book coming so he can keep making money
The alternative would be a disastrous release, thus killing hype for the spinoffs as well
I lived very close to grrm and would look up and imagine what the frick he was doing up there.
his ending was the same as D&D ending so he had to rewrite almost everything.
No it wasn't. GRRM talks about how he won't change much of anything now, because it's important to give the proper pay offs to what has been foreshadowed. The fact is: Dany going crazy and burning King's Landing hasn't been properly foreshadowed in either book or show. D&D tried to hamfist a losing desperate Dany plot at the very end of the story, and nobody bought into it, that's why it got panned. George was never going to make such a mistake.
Literally half of the last book is just repeating "Targs go mad, Dany'smad, get it" while she's burning children alive. How the frick did people actually miss that.
Here's a direct quote:
>“Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
The takeaway here, is that there is a high chance, but you have to wait and see how it plays out. George instills the *fear* that Dany *might* become mad. And holding your breath is a form of suspense. So the reader is being held in great suspense, waiting to see if Dany goes mad or not.
However, she won't because of all the other stuff that indicates she's mastering her anger, where other characters have failed. She's making people love her, where other characters have been ruling through fear.
Dany is the good side to Viserys's bad side.
Dany is the good side to Cersei's bad side. Cersei shows a lot of mad Targaryen symbolism. most notably the way she uses wildfire to burn down the tower. She's a "what if" scenario for a mad Dany. But at a much smaller scale.
Dany is the good side to Young Griff's bad side. This part is yet to be seen. But Young Griff has already shown signs of having a temper and taking insults poorly. He's the one going to tilt into madness when he realizes that everything he was groomed to be is threatened to be taken away from him by Dany.
What if they both go mad? It's just that Daenerys is a commentary that the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
She's supposed to represent what Sauron looks like from the POV of people who aren't aware of her story like the readers do. As stupid as Dumb & Dumber were, they rightfully depicted how Daenerys' army was a force of foreign invaders.
Look at what she has:
- 3 vicious dragons that will burn everything in their path
- Dothraki who've pillaged, raped, murdered, enslaved, and turned farmland into grassland
- Unsullied who will obey her every command without question and they fervently believe in her as a goddess figure
- Sellswords who are not going to be nice to any citizens of cities and towns they besiege regardless if Daenerys tries to discipline them
- And she's probably gonna get Victarion's Ironborn who are notorious for reaving for generations
Does this look like a shining princess-in-exile coming to liberate a land she has no idea about or never stepped foot in?
Look at the 163 masters she crucified in Meereen. She even justifies it to herself. She may not even go full-out Targ mad; she's even worse; a savior who believes in her own righteousness regardless of what she does.
>“One hundred and sixty-three,” she answered.
>She had them nailed to wooden posts around the plaza, each man pointing at the next. The anger was fierce and hot inside her when she gave the command; it made her feel like an avenging dragon. But later, when she passed the men dying on the posts, when she heard their moans and smelled their bowels and blood . . .
>Dany put the glass aside, frowning. It was just. It was. I did it for the children.
I forget who it was, but it was some character who lists all of the things she has in a bad light. Because yes, to them it does appear bad. And once again, George is instilling fear and suspense.
The fact that Dany appears like an invading force will be the cause of conflict between her and Westeros and Griff. But it won't be the truth of it. Dany made a rash decision dealing with the masters. But since then, she's begun to rethink her decisions, and now she's trying more diplomatic approaches. She wasn't even necessarily wrong for what she did. It was just callus, and potentially the cause of much conflict down the road. Meereen is a huge learning experience for her. And so she's going to make a lot of faults there, learn and grow. By trial and error, she will become a good Queen with the potential to unify everyone. But she's going to be tragically seen as an invading force who needs to be put down. Her end will be tragic because of what could have been. Not because she went mad.
I see Daenerys as a case study on what GRRM said in an interview about Aragorn.
>“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”
I know Cinemaphile likes to shit on that tax policy blurb, but what interests me more is the point about the orcs. Do you genocide an entire race even its infants because of the potential threat they can cause on Middle Earth.
The same applies to the hard decisions that Daenerys, Jon, and Stannis make throughout the series. Daenerys staying in Meereen is her test. I give her credit that she needs to learn how to rule and so far, it's not going well for her. How she deals with the Meereenese knot is what will foreshadow how she will approach Westeros.
As much as people complain about Jon being a Gary Stu, his decisions in A Dance of Dragons show that he's all too human. He's more savvy than Ned, but he made a lot of short-sighted decisions like sending away his closest allies, alienating his fellow brothers, and most importantly, deciding to march onto the Dreadfort. When he got fragged by his fellow Watchmen, that's something Daenerys never dealt with; the consequences of her actions.
>How she deals with the Meereenese knot is what will foreshadow how she will approach Westeros.
True. But remember your previous quote. Dany killed the master in order to save the babies. She's not going to genocide a whole people for "the greater good." She decides that those in power need to be removed. She only did it in such a way that she made a whole lot of enemies. She could have handled it better. But stopping slavery is tough because how exactly do you "transition" out of slavery? In almost all cases, slavery ends with a fight and a lot of people dying.
But I think that Dany is paying for her mistakes now. Sure, she hasn't died, but she's been forced to flee to the wastes after a violent uprising. And now she's mostly helpless in the desert, and about to be captured by a bunch of violent savages to be imprisoned until the day she dies. If that's not consequences, I don't know what is.
What happens when she takes King's Landing and the smallfolk turn hostile to her and her army? Or half the lords refuse to submit? Does she go all Fire & Blood to browbeat them? Burn the lord and force their children to bend the knee?
As bad as Season 7 was, the Eastwatch episode where Randyll Tarly calls out Daenerys for being a foreign invader and not his Queen is what would likey happen. And the aftermath where Randyll and his son Dickon get incinerated and the Westerland army kneeling out of fear.
And of course we're gonna have Young Griff marry Arianne Martell and he probably seizes a good chunk of Westeros. As Tyrion pointed out, Faegon has the better claim to the throne than Dany and she won't be pleased.
Then there's Stannis. She's gonna want to burn the Usurper's brother regardless that he's trying to defend the realm against the Others.
And she's hardly helpless when she had a massive flying weapon of mass destruction. Sure she has diarrhea and feeling under the weather, but chances are she's going to have those Khals join her too.
>What happens when she takes King's Landing and the smallfolk turn hostile to her and her army? Or half the lords refuse to submit? Does she go all Fire & Blood to browbeat them? Burn the lord and force their children to bend the knee?
This is exactly her experiences are forcing her to answer. These are the questions that Griff has never been challenged on. What is FAEGON'S tax policy? What's to stop him from becoming mad and a terrible king? This random hidden away Prince is supposed to be the savior of the kingdom? Think about it. Dany has faults, sure. It's part of who she is as a Targaryen, and just being a young inexperienced girl. But Griff? More like Grift. He's the one George is setting up to fall. Dany just learned that she can't expect love as a given. But Griff still has the idea that he's due love because of who he is. And you know what? He might make it rather far. He might earn the respect of the men around him. But again, what's to stop him from becoming mad? He gets propped up as the rightful king, but the right king. If you catch my meaning.
Stannis is unloved. He's making too many enemies with his crazy blood-fire cult. When or if he's ever brought down, nobody but is small sect of zealots will care.
>but chances are she's going to have those Khals join her too.
That's the most likely outcome. But she's going to reform them all. She's going to force them to stop pillaging, force the ironborn to stop pillaging too, and be a uniting force. The *idea* that she is mad, is what will cause people to work against her. And so despite all the good intentions, she will probably die young, and be remembered as a mad targaryen queen. But that will all be a fabrication written by the Maesters. Everyone else went mad.
they didn't have the resources to kill everything that moved before bombs etc.
they could burn all the crops, if orcs have crops, try to starve them - spread disease there, and sit back and wait.
but yes, if you have a threat, you do your best to wipe it out or render it completely powerless.
orcs aren't human, orcs seem to be a chaotic form of animal,
By being a fat moron who spends all his time on Twitter crying about TERFs
Being a lazy fat fricking degenerate who wrote himself into a corner. Winds has to be at least twice as long as any other previous books to resolve all the plotlines. This fat frick ran out of creative juice and inherited an absolute mess of plotlines from his younger, better self.
He's been writing the series for 30 years, I got tired of waiting for his books in like 2005 for fricks sakes
In his own words, about asoiaf, no less:
"I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it"
Case closed. He doesn't want to write any more, and can't be bothered forcing himself.
>principle characters
This is a published author, the so-called "American Tolkien"
>Kill off characters just to "subvert expectations'.
He's always been a fat fricking fraud.
A Feast for Crows introduced interesting characters with interesting motivations and then he kills them all
iirc didn't he initially plan a big timeskip for the books and then later abandon that idea? Seems like he's winging it to some extent.
>Seems like he's winging it
You... you know it's fiction right? Like, it's all made up?
>iirc didn't he initially plan a big timeskip for the books and then later abandon that idea? Seems like he's winging it to some extent.
He had a big autistic hang-up over timeskips that led to the problem he's in now. He then watched as HBO did timeskips effortlessly and they haven't been perfect but the story moves on just fine. I think he realizes he fricked up massively and he doesn't want to dig himself out of a hole that was a mistake to begin with so he's stalling by doing other things.
HBO didn't do time skips though, unless you mean in HOTD. The story has the same pacing as the books, but the kid actors just inexplicably look older every year.
The first 5ish seasons of the show take place over 2 years, just like the books.
Yeah I read The Way of Kings and honestly it sucked major ass. Way too slow, the prose is weak, the payoff at the end was hardly worth the slog. And the constant backstabbing and le epic twists from the advisor guy to the king sucked.
>HBO didn't do time skips though, unless you mean in HOTD.
They did in a round-about way that had the same effect, such as Bran disappearing for an entire season. Also, a lot of the fast traveling with defacto time skipping. GRRM's entire rationale for not doing them was that he couldn't believe nothing would happen to these characters during the interim and that applies to what HBO did. It's made even worse when it becomes obvious that Arya's arc would have been MUCH more believable had they entirely skipped her training in Braavos. Had she walked into the house of black and white or whatever with Jaquen and then she emerges a season later as the uber assasin that she was, it still wouldn't have been great but it would have been much less cringe. Watching her get hit with a stick 1000 times and then miraculously survive a stabbing didn't help.
Guy finally made it in life in his 70s, he knows he has limited time left on Earth so he'd rather spend it living it up than half of it chained to a keyboard in a dimly lit room writing fiction for homosexuals who are just waiting to rip it apart anyway, after the story was ruined by a shit adaptation
Each of us would've done the same
I read the first book in grade 8, that was when it first came out in 96. I'll be 40 this year. It's taking him a life time to write low brow medieval porn.
Finish? We're waiting for the fat frick to finally start.
The fat man has no idea how to end the series without pissing off his fanbase. In a way he was clever to give D&D the Cliff Notes of the ending. GRRM was having them beta-test his ideas. The complete and utter destruction that Season 8 did GOT made George realize he has to rewrite everything.
However, the 2 year pandemic made him realize there's no way he can finish up the story in 2 books AND have a conclusion that secures his legacy as the US Tolkien.
So he's just bullshitting and wasting time with pseudo-history like Fire & Blood. How the frick can people read that shit? It's not even a real storyline, just archaic renditions of lore presented as history.
The Fat Man can at least finish Dunk & Egg. That's a much easier task and I'd be fine with that series concluding with the Tragedy at Summerhall than whatever happens in ASOIAF.
>check when the last dunk and egg was published
>2010
Sure, totally getting finished. Any day now.
I know it'll never get finished, but writing several short stories is within his power than writing 2 novels.
I can't believe it's been that long since The Mystery Knight was written...
After publishing 12 erotic short stories I'm now finally going to write an actual full length romantic book about a billionaire and his virgin secretary.
Based. Wouldn't mind a link to your work, anon.
https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Store-Viola-Lumi/s?rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3AViola+Lumi
They're all about spanking.
Some youtuber did a breakdown of the progress he's made and apparently he had barely started writing before the lockdown, and so he did make a lot of progress during the lockdown but not enough to finish since it's the longest book in the series and he was only starting with a few leftover chapters from ADWD.
Its easy.
>write successful books that have sloppy edges based on cliche perceptions of medieval times and historical stuff you barely understand
>add dicks, dongs, tiddays and lotta rape and killing to it, shake and stirr (its called the GRR Martini)
>write on an old computer with an OS older than yourself, with a work attitude as bad as your health
>bam, get a sweet TV deal
>tell the producers of the show how the story ends, they just need more seasons to end it properly
>the producers fast pace and dunk it hard
>nobody liked the ending anyways
>wrote yourself into a corner, have no other ideas
>instead you enjoy the easy fame, money and prostitutes you get at conventions, interviews, etc
>instead of ending the story yourself and saving your literary legacy, you rant on twitter all day long
>keep on writing stuff nobody asked for, or has any interest in
>tell the internet you are content with fricking up your lifes work and name because "you dont have much time left, i rather write something i enjoy"
Thats how you don't finish a book in 2 years. He will never finish it and the one after that neither
>begins and completed one of the best sci-fi series in 10 books within 5 years.
>compete television adaption of your work that doesn’t jump the shark
>story is held together by its brilliant characters and plot rather than gratuitous violence and sex.
Kneel.
>story is held together by its brilliant characters and plot
Welcome to ASOIAF, little nip simp.
Literally why doesn't he just pay for someone to write it for him. Or have a team of them writing the different character POV-s.
My wife writes Fantasy. Big books. At a World Fantasy Con in Chicago. , 1995, he asked her what was the most important thing to do when you write multi-volume books. She told him you have to outline. The whole series. That way you don’t get writer’s block. He didn’t take her advice.
>That way you don’t get writer’s block. He didn’t take her advice.
He changed the whole story outline if you look at his initial draft that he sent to publishing.
The only way he can finish the series in 2 novels is if TWOW and ADOS are each split into 2 parts. And each part is over 1000 pages. So in reality, he's gonna have to write 4 books worth of material to wrap it up.
You are not wrong. t. Fantasy wife poster.
Hes a good writer in the mechanical sense, not a very smart writer, or original. Just write generic fantasy, make it grimdark edgy with dongs dangling around, done.
American Tolkien indeed
Robert E Howard still hasnt been topped.
Write the books you fat frick.
He got several israelite juice shots, he'll never get new book out before he croaks
>He got several israelite juice shots, he'll never get new book out before he croaks
he doesn't like working on it and as long as he has other shows to work on he as an excuse.
the one thing fans of a song of ice and fire can do to speed release time is boycott everything grr does that is not winds of winter.
if house of dragons get several season and more spin offs winds of winter will never be released in grr live time.
>more money than you know what to do with
>already old and fat so probably wont live much longer
>you could spend your remaining time enjoying the twilight of your life to the fullest
>or you could sit behind a computer writting a book for a bunch of nerds
I would've done the same, dont know if he has children but I'd rather spent time with grandchildren, spending money giving them memories
i read the entire bibliography of Plato during the lockdowns
Unironically it was the show.
He got a lot more famous and he started getting odd writing jobs and basically shoved aside WoW. Now any drive to do any writing is wasted on future projects Winds is never getting released.
How at that weight and age is he still going? Has anyone checked his pulse? Maybe he's already dead.