George R. R. Martin is so very sick of people complaining about Winds Of Winter
While ostensibly promoting a new project based on the work of his late friend Howard Waldrop, Martin unleashed some ire on impatient fans.
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It’s been a minute since we checked in on George R.R. Martin’s “Not-A-Blog,” the number one spot on the internet for the author to post the prolific output of his modern-day career: Blog posts yelling at people for yelling at him for not finishing the next A Song Of Ice And Fire book, The Winds Of Winter. Also, talking about those direwolves that got brought back from extinction recently, and promoting projects like the films he’s been making from the work of his late friend Howard Waldrop. (Next up: A fully animated feature film, titled A Dozen Tough Jobs, written by Joe Lansdale, and based on Waldrop’s 1989 adaptation of the Twelve Labors Of Hercules.)
But the venue is also very much where Martin feels comfortable venting about the frustrations in his life, whether that’s being mad that HBO excised a character from House Of The Dragon, or wider anger about screenwriters and directors screwing with his stuff in general. But no topic has gotten more acid from Martin over the years than people complaining to him about the fact that it’s now been 14 years since he published A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book of his seven-book cycle, with no sign of the sixth actually arriving any time soon. We’ve written about Martin’s unhappy takes on this feedback before, but honestly, it’s worth reading the whole latest digression that he launched into in his post this week and just luxuriating in his use of language. (Since you’re, uh, not going to get that particular treat any other way any time soon, as far as we can tell.)