The Winds of Winter

[seitora]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655589681948418050

His blog in case the tweet ever gets deleted

Mitch Hedberg on GRRM: "I stopped writing because of the writer's strike. I mean, I stopped writing a decade before the writer's strike too, but I still stopped writing now."

 

[seitora]

The 12th anniversary of the release of A Dance with Dragons was a week ago, and still no word when Winds of Winter will release

 

[seitora]

George is publishing another new book related to ASoIaF. Of course, you know it's not going to be Winds of Winter, because a) you would've heard from the broader internet by now instead of hearing it first from this obscure dead message board, and b) it's George.

With no real irony, it's a (second) Game of Thrones cookbook. I guess when it comes to food, he's easily able to exercise those writing chops, and yes, that was a deliberate pun. Though he does have a co-author on this one.

 

[silentorphan]

I always thought that it was Robert Jordan who liked writing on and on (and on) about food, but Martin's published two cookbooks already?

 

[seitora]

Jim Butcher some time ago wrote the first book of an expected new series, The Aeronaut's Windlass. Then he just kind of went on hiatus for most of a dedicate, including a 6-year sabbatical from Dresden Files. But 8 years later, he's now published The Olympian Affair, the next book in the Cinder Spire series. In that time, George still hasn't published Winds of Winter.

 

[seitora]

I just realised I have been shit talking Martin's writing speed for over 12 years in this topic now

 

[silentorphan]

including a 6-year sabbatical from Dresden Files.

I didn't pay much attention to this part of the sentence until just now, but IIRC, he wrote a couple of short stories for the Dresden-verse during this time--one exclusive for the Brief Cases short story anthology and another for Christmas that same year.

 

[seitora]

GRRM also wrote multiple stories in Westeros at the time, just not the one we're talking about.

 

[AoMythology]

You think that soon?

...This aged a bit too well.

 

[seitora]

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954613

PRESTON: I'll never forget a conversation I had with my friend, George R.R. Martin. And he was really upset. He said, somebody used ChatGPT to write the final book in my "Game Of Thrones" series. It's my characters, my settings. Even my voice as an author they somehow were able to duplicate using that program.

Obligatory "Fuck open stealing by A.I.", but there are too many easy jokes here to be made

 

[point09micron_process]

So the takeaway from this is that AI has gone from sci-fi to real life to advanced enough to do his job for him well enough that he himself can't tell the difference in the time he's allegedly been working on this book. Honestly, I'm glad to see it. Maybe he'll learn something from it.