By now, followers of George R.R. Martin’s Music of Ice and Hearth books — the novels tailored into the HBO Max collection Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon — are used to mildly exhausting updates on his progress on the 11-years-overdue subsequent novel within the collection, The Winds of Winter. An episode of the Comedy Central collection Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The Information has the newest from Martin, who says — sounding pretty honest about it — that he’s written round 1,100 to 1,200 pages of the e-book to this point, and simply has “one other 400, 500 pages” to go.
On this unique clip from Martin’s episode of the present, scheduled to air after The Day by day Present on Dec. 7 at 11:30 p.m. EST, animated host Dr. Ike Bloom (voiced by Inspector Ike’s Ikechukwu Ufomadu) takes Martin to activity, calling him “a struggling author — let me revise that, really pathetic — who’s having bother assembly deadlines.” He calls up hyper-prolific crime author James Patterson, asking him for recommendation about how Martin can flip his work round quicker.
Patterson first asks how far previous his deadline Martin is, and appears shocked to listen to how lengthy the e-book has been delayed. He means that Martin has “author’s constipation,” and advises him to vary up his writing strategies, when it comes to nonetheless utilizing a DOS pc and the WordStar phrase processor: “Strive one thing else, then, ’trigger that’s not working.”
Martin has continuously expressed that he’s exasperated with followers and interviewers continually nagging him about his gradual progress on The Winds of Winter, which retains getting sidelined as he works on different HBO exhibits and initiatives. However right here, he appears to at the least attempt to drive a humorousness about the entire thing, with some awkward laughs on the roasting. What he doesn’t tackle is why he doesn’t, as Patterson blithely suggests, separate Winds of Winter into releasable sections, given {that a} 1,700-page e-book isn’t actually a bodily chance. “Downside solved!” Patterson says. “You break down the 1,100 pages into three books… You submit one e-book per 12 months, they’ll be comfortable, and all of a sudden you’ll be forward of schedule!” Martin simply laughs.
Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The Information is presently in its third season. Full episodes of the collection can be found on Paramount Plus, Hulu, and on the Comedy Central web site.
