re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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It all makes me sad. I think he is just crushed by the weight of expectations by fans and tired of the criticism. I know I would be.

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He's too prideful to admit he's stuck and that he needs help to finish the series. Or to admit he just wants to be done with ASOIAF. Yes, fans can be demanding. But he's not the first person to have a huge series and have fans wanting the next installment. This isn't something that's unique to him, by a long shot. He's 100% brought a good chunk of the criticism on himself.

And then had the nerve to shite talk the show's ending, like he didn't have to opportunity to cultivate that by finishing the series in it's 8 year run.

I would have more sympathy if he had been more empathetic to fans who have bank rolled all of his other projects and his lifestyle with the financial dedication to the ASOIAF universe and to the GoT TV show.

Nah, I'm all out of sympathy here. He's just being a dick at this point.

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Dany and Daenerys

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Its been so long since he wrote anything in this series that he forgot they were the same character

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At least he sounds open to a ghost writer finishing them.

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I didn't really get that from it.

But even if it's in his will that it never be finished by another writer is that really unbreakable once the ownership/rights pass to that woman he talks about? (Longtime girlfriend, I think, but maybe wife.) Or eventually her heirs? Even if he puts the rights into a trust will the trustees never be open to one last money grab? I think someone will eventually find a way to take the money. But it might be decades. I hope I'm around to say frick you Fat George as I'm reading.

Article from 2022 (Entertainment Weekly):

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"I am making progress with The Winds of Winter, but it's still not done yet. I think it's going to be a very big book," Martin said. "I think I'm about three-quarters of the way done. The characters all interweave. I've actually finished with some of the characters, I've got their whole story, but not others. So I have to finish all that weaving. Still gonna take me awhile."

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Entertainment Weekly - 2022

From this week:

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After 14 long years of writing, Martin confirmed that he’s roughly 75% finished with the long-anticipated sixth installment. At the moment, he’s penned about 1,200 pages — with another 400 to 500 still to go. That alone would make it longer than A Storm of Swords and A Dance with Dragons, which previously held the record for size within the series.

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Collider - 5 days ago

That’s the same update from a few years ago during his Q&A with the publisher. I don’t know why Collider is rehashing it as new info.

This is the video. From October 2022

Friends, I’ve finished Fire & Blood. Just started The World of Ice & Fire.

All I have left after this is the Winds sample chapters

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Because of the size of the books, I was thinking to myself "by the time I finish these, the next book should be releasing pretty soon".

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Try Proust's Rememberance Of Things Past.

New (1/15) interview with the asshat by The Hollywood Reporter.

As we've know for a while, he's done.

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Here’s what happens when he sits down to write: “I will open the last chapter I was working on and I’ll say, ‘Oh frick, this is not very good.’ And I’ll go in and I’ll rewrite it. Or I’ll decide, ‘This Tyrion chapter is not coming along, let me write a Jon Snow chapter.’ If I’m not interrupted though, what happens — at least in the past — is sooner or later, I do get into it.”

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And reinforced what we already knew that he won't let someone else finish.

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I ask Martin if he’s ever considered simply giving up on the book. It’s your life, George, I say. You don’t have to spend it working on something if you find it torturous.

“I would hate that,” Martin says. “It would feel like a total failure to me. I want to finish.”

Handing the project to another writer — which some fans have lobbied for him to do — isn’t going to happen, Martin says. There is also no secret contingency plan for somebody else to take over if Martin gets struck by lightning. “If that happens, my work won’t be finished,” he says. “It’ll be like The Mystery of Edwin Drood” — referring to Charles Dickens’ unfinished final novel.

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How much further does he have to go? Martin is vague. “If I wound up doing everything in my head, this could be the longest book in the series.”

After asking Martin repeatedly about Winds — seemingly more than he’d like — the author did what he does best. He tells a story.

In 1975, Martin met Dune author Frank Herbert at a book convention and they shared a drink. The meeting was “near the end of Herbert’s life,” Martin says. Herbert had written many acclaimed novels, but all fans seemed to want was more Dune. Herbert’s publisher had just offered him a modest advance for a story he wanted to write, or six times that number for another Dune novel.

“He didn’t like Dune anymore and he didn’t want to write any more Dune books,” Martin says. “But he felt locked in by the success of Dune, so he kept writing them.”

Martin finishes … and waits.

I ask: Do you relate to how Herbert felt?

“I’m not necessarily tired of the world [of Ice and Fire],” he says. “I love the world and the world-building. But, yes, I do.”

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He's now bumped Dunk and Egg and Fire and Blood ahead of WOW.

[img]Martin’s thoughts turn, unprompted, to the end of Ice and Fire. It becomes clear that the details of his story’s conclusion, like so much of the saga, remains uncertain.

“I was going to kill more people,” he muses. “Not the ones they killed [in the show]. They made it more of a happy ending. I don’t see a happy ending for Tyrion. His whole arc has been tragic from the first. I was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live …”

His assistant’s car is coming. I ask what he’s doing for Christmas.

“I don’t know,” Martin says. “I think I’ll stay home. I have to write more Dunk and Egg. There’s supposed to be another Fire and Blood book, too. I do think if I can just get some of these other things off my back, I could finish The Winds of Winter pretty soon. It’s been made clear to me that Winds is the priority, but … I don’t know. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for that.”

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Article is interesting and extremely frustrating all at the same time. Which kind of sums up GRRM in general. I didn't realize he had a falling out with the HoTD showrunner and isn't involved really at all anymore. LINK

If he had just finished WoW years ago, he'd be done with it. We're mot clamoring for more GOT, we just want him to finish it.