re: George RR Martin has a message for people who don't think he will finish ASOIAF

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.