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So when is the next grrm book coming?

When it comes. George R. R. Martin gets a lot of crap for not writing his 400,000-word novels quickly enough. If you read his blog, he is incredibly blasé about people bitching. I wanted to share this post by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War, The Android Dream, etc) that addresses author productivity. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/07/17/a-small-observation-regarding-words-and-releases/ Neil Gaiman said it

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Definitions.

Ah, success so saccharine! Here I shake in the corner sand off the sides of my hourglass,  remembering those grains spent carrying leaky buckets for gold  while hungry mariachis dodge pelted fruit. Lying on a park bench, eyes clenched afraid of the spotlight, afraid it misses me, here on this bold tarmac where I’ve tossed

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Irma, please don’t destroy Florida. Instead, take the Holy Land Experience.

Here is Irma, a Category-Five hurricane barreling towards the Lesser Antilles, projected to arrive off the coast of Florida in three days:    Irma is a horrible storm. It will no doubt cause horrible damage, and, for now, it’s coming first to us.   America and Florida, in particular, has a lot of reasons to deserve

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