George rr martin has been written The winds of winter for a very long timeAnd in that process, he’s also happy to do a lot of things that are not “Write The winds of winterMost of Game of Thrones‘Production, the birth and death of multiple of its spinoffs, movies, tv shows, book anthologies, video games, updates on his blog about how he is indeed Writing The winds of winterBegging US to not ask Him about updates on Winds of winter, Giving us the updates on Winds of winter Anyway: The Man’s Been Doing stuff,
But that is still not enough for some who has made the wait for Winds of winter Become as Excruciating for the writer As it is for them. And martin is letting it be known his medium of choice, his Not a blog blogThat it’s really Starting to Annoy Him. As part of an update announcing his involvement in production an animated feature adaptation of howard waldrop’s novella A dozen tough jobs—A mythic riff on the story of hercules and the Greek Gods, Reimagined in 1920s MissSSSIPPI – with Lion forge, Martin Took A Moment to Pop Off at Anyone Priming to Make a joke About Him Adding Yet Another Side Quest to his list of projects.
“I know, I know. Some of you will just be pissed off by The winds of winter“Martin Wrote.: You have given up on me, or on the book. I will Never Finish WindsIf i do, I will never finish A dream of springIf i do, it but bey good. I out to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die song anyway, if I am so old. I lost all interest in A song of ice and fire Decades ago. “
“I don’t give a shit about everything any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. I edit the Wild cards Books too, but you hate Wild cardsYou May Hate Everything Else I Have Ever Written, The Hugo-Winners and Hugo-Losters, ‘A Song for Lya’ and Dying of the light‘Sandkings’ and Beauty and the Beast‘This Tower of Ashes’ and ‘The Stone City,’ Old mars and Old venus and Rogues and Warriors and Dangerous women And all the other anthologies I edited with my friend gardner dozois, you don’t care about any of that, I know. You don’t care about anything but Winds of winterYou’ve told me so often enough, “Martin Added.
The point martin, continues, is that he does care about Winds And the world it inhabits, it’s just more than all who is as a writer –nd in this case, a producer acting on the behhalf of a late friend to brings their work to life. “Thing is, I do care about them. And i care about westeros and Winds As Well, “Martin Continued.” The starks and lanisters and targaryens, tyrion and asha, dany and daenrys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine. “
“I love A dozen tough jobs The first time I read it, ages ago. I love howard too. It saddens me that he did not live long enough to see the film; I hope we do him justice. How can we not? Hercules, Howard, Joe, Lion Forge… I wish you all could share my expert at the prospect of this movie. “
It’s the sort of frankness that martin has, for better or WORSE, BECCN KNOWN for on his personal blog- WHERE HAS, of Course, Done Everything from Rail on his Winds of winter Progress detractor to engage in a bit of backroom Drama with hbo Over Changes to House of the dragonMartin has also used the blog to announs that he’s no longer giving the world updates on Winds of winterBefore Promptly GIVING ANYYWAYIt’s clear that, for as long as it is taking to Finish the novel, martin does Have the passion for it that people sometimes, Jokingly Otherwise, Accuse Him of Lacking. Otherwise he just wouldn’st keep telling us about it anyway, even as he Rails Against People’s Response to that updates in Turn. People are still going to complain over how long it’s taken
Whenever Winds of winter Finally come our way, there’s probally going to be planty more martin-affected projects that get announced or come along with before it regardless. No one’s going to stop Him from from ± just as martin Himself Insists that no one will stop Him from Finishing Winds on his oven terms.
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