GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Ya, the only time a TV show may consider a hiatus is if certain core actors need it. But a hiatus can also mean issues in terms of potentially losing actors as well, because actors gotta eat.

That detailed plan is completely BS. He is either straight up lying or deluded. He has to know that no show is going to slow down for him, they can't

chaos_sl said:

Dude has made tens of millions of dollars since the shows took off, I don't blame him for wanting to enjoy that. And I'll tell him when I have him tied to a chair in my basement in front of a typewriter.

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Why do you think he doesn't want to complete his life's work? ASoIAF is pretty much the only thing he will be remembered for. To think he'd just fuck off because he finally had a payday is pretty stupid. Dude is just busy.

Blasphemy.

bixxby_sl said:

Dude is just busy.

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eating takes time I guess

It takes all damn day to prepare those 7 course meals of pickled pheasant dung dripping with honey served from a crackling black bread trencher of nut gravy.

George R.R. Martin Teases Game of Thrones Movies! - IGN

Pretty sure he's goofin' about the 'final chapter' being a movie, but some of his other stories as movies may not be too awful. Dunk and Egg, Tower of Joy, one of the 1000 folk stories he has built into the books.

Dunk & Egg would make a pretty epic series of movies.

chaos_sl said:

Dunk & Egg would make a pretty epic series of movies.

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Dat melee...

chaos_sl said:

Dunk & Egg would make a pretty epic series of movies.

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It would. I'd hate for them to do that with the series finale though.

I also don't want any Spartacus-style bullshit with an interim prequel season. Those kids are aging fast. Bran has had hair on his lip since before Winterfell burned.

Cybsled_sl said:

Pretty easy to tell who has never written anything large before. Motivation plays a large part, but writing stuff can be hard if you're feeling drained. That's to say nothing of self-critique...it's possible he may have to restart multiple times because what he wrote "didn't work".

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Oh, come on. Seriously? You're saying that's a process that takes MANY YEARS? No, it's definitely more likely he just hasn't been working on it lately. He's got other interests. I can't say I blame him.

All you need to do is look at how quickly he's produced the others.

He's slowing down. It's not all of a sudden getting harder. He's running out of fucks and mired in sprawl.

2 years, 2 years, 2 years, 5 years, 6 years.

So no cybsled. Although you have a valid point generally it is not apt to this situation. NOT APT.

If anyone actually bothered to read the Vanity Fair article, this basically sums up that deep down, while the TV series is pressuring him, he doesn't really care to finish the books within any specific timeframe. That's where all the talk of "oh we can do a prequel season about Dunk and Egg in between" comes from... So when the TV series does catch up he'll just shrug his shoulders and say, "go make a season about this instead if you want".

Does the existence of the show ever crowd your imagination or make you feel like you have to hurry to finish A Song of Ice and Fire?


Well, it certainly increased the pressure. But there was a certain amount of pressure anyway. The minute you have a series [of books] and a book comes out, people immediately begin asking, "Where's the next book?" And the more successful the series is, the more people ask that question, and the more pressure you begin to feel. The fact that the show is catching up to me has really doubled-down on that and made me feel the pressure a lot more. The truth is, some writers thrive on that. I don't really. I don't like deadlines. I've spent most of my career trying to avoid deadlines. The novels I wrote before A Song of Ice and Fire --Dying of the Light; Windhaven; Fevre Dream; Armageddon Rag -- all those I wrote without a contract, purely on my own time. And when I was finished I sent it to my agent and said, "Look, I finished a novel. Here, go sell it." And, thankfully, he did. But nobody was waiting for it. No publication date had been announced that then had to be changed because I didn't deliver on time and all that. So I could write these books on my own leisure, and there's part of me that misses that day. But the minute I started doing this mega-novel and publishing each segment, I realized I'd lost that. That's gone. And when I finish Ice and Fire, maybe I'll go back to that. After I complete the seven volumes, I just won't tell anyone I'm writing a novel. I'll just write it, finish it, give it to my agent, and say, "Here. Sell this." There's a certain freedom that comes with that.