GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Eyashusa_sl said:

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.

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chaos_sl said:

I highly doubt HBO will just say "oh well, we'll just take our most successful series ever and put it on hold while we wait around on you." I also highly doubt that they don't have some kind of provision to carry on in absence of his books.

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Eyashusa_sl said:

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.

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Maester Chuk_sl said:

sometimes i wish annie wilkes from Misery was real and she captured Gurrm and kept him in her guest bedroom hobbled up and forced to write his books and do them justice.

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