New GRRM Update on ADWD

[Ursa major]

I also tend to think of stormtroopers in a WWII context. (While not quite of GRRM's vintage, there were plenty of war films about when I was growing up.)

I suppose the designation was used, in fiction/films, as a shorthand: one knows which side a stormtrooper is on (in the same way as one knows that a "guard" is German in Stalag-whatever) whereas a soldier may have to be further categorised.

 

[chairface]

I guess I understand associating "stormtrooper" with WWII, but even in the context of TK's avatar? Man.

 

[The Imp]

I guess I understand associating "stormtrooper" with WWII, but even in the context of TK's avatar? Man.

My comment was about the general use of the term stormtrooper, not abnout Tk's avatar. I'm kind of confused by your comment/question.

 

[chairface]

I took you to mean that my usage caused you to think WWII, even though I referred to TK's avatar. My bad, if that wasn't your meaning.

 

[The Imp]

I took you to mean that my usage caused you to think WWII, even though I referred to TK's avatar. My bad, if that wasn't your meaning.

no, not at all. The thought struck me when I looked at that website, but it wasn't a new thing for me. I've always thought that Lucas was alluding to the WW2 version of stormtroopers when he created the name for the SW version.

 

[Koopa]

Let us hope for the Americans, that the Senate won't make a hassle.
At long last you lot seem to crawl out of the middle ages when it comes to Health Care.

 

[Ursa major]

Let us hope for the Americans, that the Senate won't make a hassle.
At long last you lot seem to crawl out of the middle ages when it comes to Health Care.

And that would affect GRRM how?


(Methinks you've posted in the wrong thread, KB.)

 

[Ursa major]

Oops!

I've just seen GRRM's latest posting on Not A Blog; it's all about the health care bill.

(I now understand why you posted your comments here, KB.)

 

[Clansman]

Back to TK's avatar, the real topic of this thread, and stormtroopers and Nazis...

The design of Darth Vader's helmet was not an accident. It is meant to look like a German soldier's (never mind that western nations adopted the flared helmet just a few years after Star Wars was released).

What is his latest update on ADWD, though? Is there one? (a not-so-valiant attempt to wrest this thread back on topic).

 

[TK-421]

Yes, an isn't my helmet sexy, non?

Here is the latest update:

Being under the weather for a couple weeks there has put me seriously behind on everything, I'm afraid. I'm now struggling to get back into it. In addition to the on-going work on DANCE, I am also trying to wrap up FORT FREAK, volume twenty-one in the Wild Cards series, and will soon need to gear up to write my season one script for HBO. I'm been over a decade since I last did a teleplay, I realized suddenly. I hope I still remember how.

 

[Ursa major]

* Wonders whether, in that episode, Dany overhears a report that some terrible catastrophe has befallen some city state in the far south of Essos; a place called Meereen. *

 

[Clansman]

Ah, Bear! Thou hast given me a smile on this gray, March day.

 

[Culhwch]

An interesting post about an interesting interview. Nothing new, really, but still worth a look.

 

[TK-421]

Only 250 pages to go at the most. Well, I'm an optimist so I am greeting this interview with the Toronto Star like the Monty Python song says: Always look on the bright side of life...

 

[Ursa major]

Strictly speaking, no more than 239 manuscript pages to go (assuming he hasn't deleted some of them since).

 

[TK-421]

Check out his blog for the awesome new 2011 ASOIF calendars to go on sale later this year.

 

[Boaz]

Just so.

 

[Boaz]

GRRM just announced on his Not A Blog that he's the writer for a new TV show. He originally pitched this show back in the nineties. But he added this caveat.

(And before some of the Ice & Fire purists out there get their panties in a twist, please note, all my writing on DOORWAYS was done in 1992 and 1993, the ball will now be in the hand of IDW Comics and the artist they select, this project will NOT take any writing time away from A DANCE WITH DRAGONS or subsequent Ice & Fire novels, even if it runs for ten years).

This makes me think George still has a ways to go on ADWD.

 

[xLORDSNOWx]

GRRM just announced on his Not A Blog that he's the writer for a new TV show. He originally pitched this show back in the nineties. But he added this caveat.

This makes me think George still has a ways to go on ADWD.

I personally dont want to see another Ice&Fire novel until ADWD is released. Like i said on a previous thread, it appears he's milking his newfound fame.

Would it hurt to prioritze his workload? Why not finish ADWD and let us sit for another 5 years while he releases and does all of this other stuff which appears to take up alot of time?

George should just wave his magic wand to unblock the writers block, being that there's an emergence of magic due to Danny's dragons? Or does the magic increase when he starts writing?

Ok, i'm off of my soapbox and back to liking George again

 

[Ursa major]

Two things:

1. The Ice & Fire Novels to wehich GRRM refers are the sequels to ADWD and so are hardly likely to appear in print before ADWD. (he has written three novellas/novelettes set before the time of ASoIaF.
2. Martin's collection of shorter works, Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective**, contains one of the scripts for Doorways, together with a brief overview of how it didn't appear as part of a series on the TV at the time. The Hedge Knight appears in this book, which I am not alone in highly recommending for the fine stories and the autobiographical notes (mostly related to his writing and Hollywood careers).

** - See Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the UK, this came out as two paperback volumes.