Originally Posted by
War Machine Dawg
If you'll read the article I linked, that's exactly what King tells GRRM. He says he writes 3-4 hours every single day and hopes to produce 5-6 "fairly clean" pages. Then GRRM asks him some stupid question about if he ever writes a sentence or two, thinks it's complete trash, questions his talent, checks his email, and wonders if he ever should be writing. King tells GRRM nope, you just gotta write.
Basically, GRRM won't let the editing process be his friend and can't write through the terrible stuff. He gets frustrated and quits too easily instead of forcing his way through. And that's why it takes him 5+ years between books instead 1-2 like it should take. Plus he supposedly doesn't get much done during football season because he's a huge fan. Seems like I've read that somewhere before, at least. So that's 3-4 months out of the year where little gets done. Then factor in trips to tv production, various comic cons, etc. - he just doesn't know how to get stuff done. And at this point, it's probably not changing. I'll be shocked if we get TWOW before 2018. And A Dream of Summer might be 2025 or later.
Bear, if you're reading, come back and talk to us! You can't get pissy and wait a decade on Fat Bastard to finish the books he apparently isn't that interested in anymore. We need some quality discussion instead of talking in circles about the same stuff!