and although we have not yet watched season 8 has ended, it has been three months since the last episode of Game of
Thrones and it seems that George R.R. Martin has moved on, in a recent interview, he spoke about what he felt after the
show ended and he said that it was "freeing". Admittedly, many fans have been
hounding on Martin to finish the last installments of A Song of Ice and Fire.
He has received flak for taking too long to write them but now, it seems with
the show finally wrapped up, he is able to focus more on writing, “I don’t think [the TV series] was very good for me,” Martin
said. “The very thing that should have speeded me up actually slowed me down.
Every day I sat down to write and even if I had a good day … I’d feel terrible
because I’d be thinking: ‘My God, I have to finish the book. I’ve only written
four pages when I should have written 40.’” He also shared his sentiments about the show and the books
becoming popular, and laments that he could no longer enjoy the simple things
in life, 'I mean, I can’t go into a bookstore any more, and that used
to be my favourite thing to do in the world... Now when I go to a bookstore, I
get recognised within 10 minutes and there’s a crowd around me. So you gain a
lot but you also lose things', the price of fame, still if I received the amount of cash the acclaimed author reportedly makes, about $15 million (£11.4m) annually
in royalties from the TV show and another $10 million (£7.6m) from his
successful literary works, I would not mind the occasional fan or three asking for my autograph! I am only making a couple of posts today as we will soon be on our way to London.
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