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

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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.

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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.