Winter May Come After All: George RR Martin Is Self-Isolating On A Remote Island And Hammering Out The Next Game Of Thrones Book
EW- George R.R. Martin has given an update on his progress writing The Winds of Winter and some thoughts on the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Game of Thrones author sought to assure fans that he's safe amid the reports of the COVID-19 outbreak.
"For those of you who may be concerned for me personally… yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population, given my age and physical condition," Martin wrote on his blog. "But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions. I am off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going in to town or seeing anyone."
The author added that he's writing every day and hinted that things looking rather dire at this point in his story. "Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day," Martin wrote.
There hasn't been much good news since the big C-Word invaded our country like the Mad Queen and wiped away all we love. But the story of Westeros getting a much-needed jumpstart is the tiniest bit of good news in this monsoon of shit. I get why George RR Martin has been dragging his feet for the last decade or so. It's a hell of a lot easier to build an entire world over a zillion pages when you are some random nerd grinding out a story in your basement with your turtle hat and suspenders on than once you become a superrich author with the biggest show on TV. Especially when he is writing those epics in DOS like Neo in the Matrix.
But now that a literal pandemic has forced Martin to stay inside of his house, Double R is ready to cook and I have never needed it more. To be clear, I have never read one word of the books. But after the way the TV show ended, I am willing to attempt to reprogram my brain how to read longer than 280 characters at a time in order to get a more satisfying ending to Thrones than the bullshit HBO fed us. No matter how many people sign petitions or stamp their feet, there isn't going to be a redo for the last season considering HBO wouldn't even budget extra money for more dragons or direwolf screentime. So we might as well just take whatever Martin puts in these next two books as the actual story and have it overwrite all the bullshit Benioff & Weiss threw against the wall in those two fast forwarded seasons. I'm sure Emilia Clarke would agree with this strategy.
TL:DR - Winter may be coming and if it does, so will I. Okay sorry, that was a bit aggressive but I'm losing my fucking mind right now.