Possibly. Doesn't matter, though. Should have negotiated better or gone to HBO and said, "Look, I can't go to all these anymore. It's seriously hindering my ability to write. And if I don't write, you don't really have a show, even if Dan and David do know the very vague picture of the ending. Let's not kid ourselves, if I don't finish these books, you will suffer a serious loss in revenue, even if you elect to continue the series without my input."

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As for the rest of what you said in the quote, you're basically saying he shouldn't enjoy any part of his life and possibly die slumped over his MS-DOS word possessor.

Because I said he shouldn't go on vacations? My understanding is that he goes on lengthy vacations routinely and doesn't work on anything other than a single typewriter at one of his homes. He should absolutely enjoy life, but if I were him, and I'm not, but if I were, I would eschew at least a few of those vacations in the name of finishing my magnum opus.

I guess I'm more worried about leaving a lasting impression on this earth than going and drinking mai thais somewhere. And if I were lucky enough to stumble upon a story of this magnitude floating around in the ether of my imagination, I would hope that my desire to see it completed would outweigh my desire to chill out on a beach.

But writer's block is writer's block, and sometimes the best way to get through it is to unplug. Just seems like he's unplugging a lot.

And as I said before, I'm sure I would be pissed too if people were sitting there speculating as to my death. I'm pretty sure there's a betting line in Vegas on it. And I'd be pissed if people continued to ask me about it and probably would flip the interviewer off for even bringing it up.

But I think I would also be hard at work finishing the novels, not doing the plethora of other shite he's reportedly doing.

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Posted by Finkle is Einhorn

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 2:55 pm to LoveThatMoney

He really doesn't vacation much. Before he left for France and Switzerland for his book signing he had been home working on tWoW since November except a one day trip he took to shoot Conan

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Posted by ladytiger118

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:20 pm to LoveThatMoney

Exactly...the problem isn't that he goes on vacations; the problem is that he'll be gone for months at a time and that he only writes on his typewriter/1990s word processing sort of ancient computer in one of his two homes in Santa Fe. Last fall he was in New Zealand and Australia for 2 months straight. And everyone is correct that he was home basically every day from December-early June. But it's hard to say how much writing he actually completed during that 5-6 month timeframe. Could he have written about 40% during that time? Sure, but I highly doubt it. Plus it's driving many of us nuts that he won't tell anyone his progress for TWoW since everyone got pissed at him for saying he was almost done ADWD in 2006 when he didn't actually release it till 2011...so of course we're worried.

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Posted by thatguy1892

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:39 pm to LoveThatMoney

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Because I said he shouldn't go on vacations? My understanding is that he goes on lengthy vacations routinely and doesn't work on anything other than a single typewriter at one of his homes.

Except he doesn't go on lengthy vacations. He's talked many times about his obligations to the Cons that he appears at due to the popularity of his series. He says that during football season is when he gets less of his work done. Which I'm sure most of us can agree on that. He works on three computers. A DOS, an obsolete Windows name a year desktop, and his laptop.

As far as his impression that he leaves, it would not matter to him. He said he started this series because he had already been fairly successful writing novels and TV and he wanted to do something that was just massive and all his own. He was disillusioned with Hollywood, which is what he had just left behind before starting the series and thought that with the way he was going to go with the story one would have ever thought to try to adapt it. This was back in 1991 when the idea came to him from a scene he had thought of about a young boy finding a litter of giant wolf pups whose mother was killed by a stag. What he and everyone else see was 10 years later Peter Jackson showing that Fantasy could be adapted and adapted to a point that it causes a frenzy and shows the monetary power of the fanboy/nerd.

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