01-26-2016, 12:43 AM
Quote:AGEING multimillionaire George R R Martin has stopped writing the next Game of Thrones book while in the middle of a sentence.
Halfway through The Winds of Winter, Martin typed ’Tyrion looked darkly at’ when he suddenly realised he was already very rich and quite old.
He said: “I was a hundred thousand words into this thing where I’ve got armies in one continent, zombies in another, dragons burning things all over the place and numerous uninteresting sub-plots involving minor noblemen whose names I cannot currently recall. It is, by anyone’s reckoning, a fucking nightmare.
“I was looking at several more months of inhumanly hard graft and even then everyone is bound to slag it off as ‘unsatisfying’.
“Meanwhile it is a lovely day outside and I am an older man with more money than I can possibly ever spend.
“You tell me why I should finish this? It’s an honest question. Someone else can do it if they like, I’m cool with that.”
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball