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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 1194162" data-attributes="member: 3346">I think there are really two issues why the book isn't finished right now.The first reason is that Martin didn't intend to write this book initially.  He intended to skip these years and cover them only through flashbacks and memories.So, his released chapters are probably converted from some of the more dramatic flashbacks he had originally intended to include.  The other chapters may be stuff he didn't intend to cover originally and he had to create over the last three years.The second reason is that Martin is now famous within the scifi-fantasy community.  Best selling author, etc.  He gets invited to cons and parties all over the place.  Editors invite him to contribute short stories to anthologies.  Companies want to make games and comic books and toys based on his novels.  Script writers approach him about making a movie.And so on and so forth.  So Martin has many more distractions today than when he was a struggling author.Its the same reason why super-bowl teams in the NFL so rarely repeat.  Even if you are the best team in the NFL, after you win you have so many distractions that you lose some of your edge and a lot of your time, which means some other team will most likely defeat you.</blockquote>