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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IcedEarth81" data-source="post: 3353370" data-attributes="member: 47224">I've got a serious question to ask: Does going to these conventions and watching football really hold back GRRM this much? I mean, we all have hobbies, we all have things going on the side, but how many of us completely slack in our main job and use those things to excuse it? I love Martin, I love his writing, I like the fact that he is accessible and all of that. But, I'm not going to simply excuse him for slacking off on his novels to do all those other things. It is highly dissappointing to start reading books and then have the author draw out the series and the pace at which the books are released. We've seen this before. Not only that, but the quality of his latest was down a little compared to before that. I didn't mind the split so much as long as the other half was out soon. It keeps getting pushed further and further back - kind of like AFFC was. ADWD should have been out last year or early this year. He spent 5 years writing what? 700 pages? If he had so much of ADWD written along with AFFC, where is it? Why isn't it out? Why can other writers in the genre spit out great books at a good pace and he can't? In 10 years are we going to be waiting on Book 7?</blockquote>