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You all know what is on my plate in prose. I need to finish WINDS, and then maybe write another Dunk & Egg novella, and then get right into A DREAM OF SPRING, and in between edit some more Wild Cards books.
Once more into the breach, dear friends… Westeros beckons.
-notablog (3-11-2021)
Happy 72nd Birthday George RR Martin!
🐺❄️💙🐺❄️💙🐺❄️💙🐺❄️💙🐺❄️💙🐺❄️💙
❄️🐺💙❄️🐺💙❄️🐺💙❄️🐺💙❄️🐺💙❄️🐺💙
Hope he had a great day and many more to come.
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The last thing I need right now is a long interruption that might cost me all the momentum I have built up. I can always visit Wellington next year, when I hope that both Covid-19 and THE WINDS OF WINTER will be done.
Writing, Reading, Writing
If nothing else, the enforced isolation has helped me write. I am spending long hours every day on THE WINDS OF WINTER, and making steady progress. I finished a new chapter yesterday, another one three days ago, another one the previous week. But no, this does not mean that the book will be finished tomorrow or published next week. It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go. Please do not give any credence to any of the click-bait websites that like to parse every word of my posts as if they were papal encyclicals to divine hidden meanings.
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Quotes from George’s chat at the Clarke Awards.
(yes, I was 1 of the 19 people watching the livestream)
His award was for “Imagination in Service to Society” subtitle: “for creating engrossing worlds in scifi and fantasy”
(link to full livestream: George sections starts around 2:01:00)
“Boredom played a part in his development as a child. Reading comic books and other books that took him out of the little five streets he grew up in.”
“I didn’t only read about adventures, but dreamt up my own.”
“I was a very well balanced little seven year old” about him deciding that a toy alien with a drill with the torturer.
“We need new stories, and for that imagination is necessary”
“I wouldn’t call it imagination as much as the capacity to dream”
“Before I was a writer, I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to be a spaceman when I was a little kid, and go to all these planets”
“You gotta dream of whatever you want to dream, and dream big”
“We need to dream. And for me the dream, the dream of space was very central to me. I had this faith in the science fiction writers, that we would go out to the planets and out into the stars. We would be there. And it frightens me when I hear these prophecies of the near future, and how it might end. And it frightens me.”
“The young writers that are coming up aren’t writing about hope and wonder as much, they’re all writing about 20 years in the future and the world is over. It’s sad and unfortunate to me.”
“We can’t really get to the stars. SO we really better make Earth work, because if we don’t get Earth to work well…”
“I want our world to have room not only for humans, but for elephants, and tigers, and wolves”
“Fortunately I was trained in case of an atomic bomb, to hide under my desk”
“My favorite words are the ones on the Statue of Liberty, and I feel like that’s what America should be about” “And talking about shutting that door and building a wall is a sign that something is wrong”
“If we all withdraw into our own tribe, this whole planet is going to go down the drain.”
“We’re really lacking in new ideas, we’re acting like the political ideas we have now is the only ideals”
“I look at the scifi books I have read in the past, and like Phillip K Dick had a story where the presidency was a lottery and maybe we should try that, can’t be any worse than what we have now”
“I know what Twitter is like. We’ll all be telling Socrates to drink the hemlock tea.”
“You can’t build anything until you dream it first. Our society needs more dreams, more idealists.”
