George R.R. Martin Gives Quick Update on Winds of Winter Progress - Page 13

DiapDealer · Yesterday, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by drofgnal

But Winds of Winter? I still have my doubts it'll ever come out. If it does then there's A Promise of Spring. A 77, that'll never happen and he's already said he won't allow someone else to finish it.

It's a rather silly line in the sand for him to stick to at this point. He already allowed someone to finish writing the ending to his series: HBO. It's the only ending people are going to get. An honest man would come clean with his fans. Admit to them that he doesn't have the interest/drive/inclination to get this thing over the finish line.

Sirtel · Yesterday, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

An honest man would come clean with his fans. Admit to them that he doesn't have the interest/drive/inclination to get this thing over the finish line.

In my experience, very few authors do that. Mostly those with serious health problems. Those who just lose the drive usually choose to procrastinate endlessly, like GRRM. As they're not as famous, only their fans are aware of it.

And sometimes it does happen that an author releases a sequel 10-15 years later. Seldom, though.

Aleron Ives · Yesterday, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by drofgnal

he's already said he won't allow someone else to finish it.

I mean, once he's dead, he won't have a say in that anymore. Where there's money to be made, the lawyers will find a way around whatever last wishes he put in writing and get the last books written somehow. Maybe they'll be labelled as fan fiction, so they will legally not be official sequels.

DNSB · Yesterday, 05:53 PM

Perhaps he'll emulate Sir Terry Pratchett. His wish for his computer and unfinished works was to have a steam roller crush them in the middle of a road which his former personal assistant carried out. The hard drive proved very resistant and after multiple passes by Lord Jericho (the steam roller), it was placed in a steam powered stone crusher which finished the job.

Quoth · Yesterday, 06:17 PM

I always wondered about backups and assumed it was purely symbolic.

rantanplan · Yesterday, 06:59 PM

George Martin uses an old word processor. Word Perfect something like that. He’ll probably not have a modern backup.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 15,615 Karma: 114630515 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I always wondered about backups and assumed it was purely symbolic.

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rantanplan Weirdo Posts: 1,179 Karma: 13169150 Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Wuppertal, Germany Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Sage, Kobo Aura H2O, reMarkable PaperPro	George Martin uses an old word processor. Word Perfect something like that. He’ll probably not have a modern backup.