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Thread: Waiting for "A Feast for Crows"?

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    Gurney Devries
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    Waiting for "A Feast for Crows"?

    Well, you're going to have to wait even longer:
    I write this the day after the presidential election.

    A FEAST FOR CROWS is still not finished. Yes, I have written some more pages since the June update. No, the book is not yet done. My August and September schedule was full of conventions, travel, and speaking appearances, which cut deeply into my writing time during those months. Yes, I could have made more progress on the book if I had stayed at home chained to the desk, but I make these commitments years in advance and I take them very seriously.

    Also, some of the writing that I have done since June has actually been rewriting. My goal, as I have said repeatedly in these updates, has always been to produce a book that is a good as it can be, so when I suddenly realize that one of my story threads can be made much more powerful and dramatic with some restructuring, I restructure... even if that means going back, tearing up finished chapters, and reworking them from start to finish.

    That's done, anyway. A FEAST FOR CROWS will be much better for it, and now I am back at work on new chapters once again... although not today, and maybe not tomorrow, or next week. I am pretty good with words, usually, but no words can express how miserable, angry, and depressed I am feeling this morning over the results of yesterday's election. The exit polling makes it clear: this was a victory for bigotry and fear, a mandate bought with lies. I know from past experience that it is going to take me some time to shake off this depression.

    Losing myself in the world of Westeros would probably be the best medicine for what ails me just now, I know full well. There is solace in work, and books -- my own books, and those of others -- have always been a refuge for me during dark times in my life. Today, however, the {fictional} travails of my {fictional} Seven Kingdoms seem pretty unimportant compared to the very real woes that the United States is facing, a future of war and isolation abroad, and division and repression at home.

    Winter is coming to Westeros, but it has already come to America.


    —George R.R. Martin, November 3, 2004
    http://www.georgerrmartin.com/nextbook.html


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    blahblahblah who cares about the election GIMME MY BOOK you facist!

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    onoz the world is about to end

    let me get my hardhat then i will be safe

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    Master Yoghurt
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    So I gather, his books are popular?

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    Haha what a whiner.

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    maybe if he was spending his time writing his BOOK he wouldn't have so much time on his hands to complain!

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    Cardinal Aiyalin
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    Just reading that post is enough to convince me that I would never support such a childish writer. Thank god I've never read any of his books!!

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    Gurney Devries
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    They're fantastic books; Worlds better than WoT. It's just childish, inane rants like this that make me wish I could avoid ever actually getting to know what the authors of my favorite books are like.

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