Reminders, Readings, and Ridiculousness.

[grrrm]

Just a quick reminder to everyone that the deadline for the Tower of the Hand contest arrives tomorrow.  E-mail in your guesses about if and when we will be seeing ADWD in 2009.

On another note, here is a lengthy, yet interesting article by Steve Tompkins of The Cimmerian about the wait for ADWD.   We get a lukewarm mention in the article,

Comments

[anonymous]

I think the writer is more sympathetic to you than you think:

"Where the Finish the Book guys lose me is when they curdle from pessimism into nattering-nabob-of-negativism, from Let’s face it, A Dance with Dragons is never coming out to Let’s face it, A Dance with Dragons is never coming out but if it does, ‘twill suck. "

IE, the writer shares your ire at the delay.

I think there is a good chance that ADWD will be good, I just don't find it likely that the series will be finished before GRRM dies.

[anonymous]

Wel, apparently the Great Lord of the Full Table has decided it's time to recuperate from the stress and excitement of the messiah's inauguration and has gone off to Colorado.

[wittynic]

He needs time to mourn his teams losses at Football. These things take time. And the selling of shit. Selling shit helps the healing process.

[anonymous]

If that fat bastard dies before he finishes this series I swear I will go to Spencer's Gifts, buy a Ouija board and make his overweight ghost spell the remainder of the books out letter by letter using that stupid plastic heart-shaped thing! Just in case his fat phantom gives me any trouble, I have a 22nd level necromancer on retainer, and he assures me he can keep Tubbo's spirit held in place by using a big sack of Cheetos and a pound cake with bacon on it.

Only 55 days!

[allmenmustserve]

Spelling out the book by Ouija board? Let's see....400,000 words, average of six letters per word, two seconds per letter....that's 55 days!

What other delays and excuses to look forward to?

[steady_01]

Let's speculate what will come before ADwD for good ol' George.

- CoSine, of course. Can't miss a con and can't write on the road.
- Superbowl . . hey! it's a football game. Can't miss that.
- The dozen other projects he's got going.
- Tax Time. We'll get some little woe is me tale while he and Ty pull together his grease stained entertainment receipts. Gotta look under the seat of his RX-7 for a ton of those. I think he found some in his body folds last year.

What else?

- We already got flood so look out for fire!
- A freak of nature hurricane rips through Santa Fe?
- He didn't pay his bills, so the contractor came back and put everything back the way it was?
- The burglars came back and returned his crappy swords?
- The dog ate the cat that ate the manuscript?
- His remodel wasn't within code?
- A republican get appointed dogcatcher
- A coronary?

Re: What other delays and excuses to look forward to?

[scorpiknox]

Ooh, this is fun...

- Local Costco has run out of 10lb bins of caramel corn.
- You-tube video of Eli Manning showering has him too worked up (and aroused) to write.
- Food poisoning from the local renaissance fair buffet.
- Simply too fat to type. Delay in ADwD exaggerated further by having to learn to use the Stephen Hawking voice machine.
- He loses his hat, and, as a consequence, his ability to swashbuckle.

(I always imagined GRRM losing his hat as he hurls himself through the threshold of a McDonald's at 10:59am, his fingers reaching back like greased grease before the door has time to shut. Breathing heavily, he manages to gasp out his prodigious McMuffin order even as he places his capn's hat atop his head. It's all very Indiana Jonesian.)

[anonymous]

Dagmer Cleftjaw is the lamest name in the books.
There is no arguing this.
-aheadbac