I’m writing as fast as I can, yaar!

Found this cute but bloody little gif on the website of fantasy author George R. R. Martin. I’m sure most of GRRM’s fans really do wish he _could_ type that fast. His hugely loved ‘Song of Fire and Ice’ series debuted as a ‘trilogy’, then had a gap of almost three years between Book 2 and 3, and another six years to Book 4. And now he expects to wrap up the series in another two books–or not.

Well, at least he wasn’t as bad as the recently deceased Robert Jordan, author of the bestselling Wheel of Time series. That one also began way back in 1990 as a proposed ‘trilogy’. (I was one of the fortunate-unfortunates who bought a copy of the wonderful first book, The Eye of The World.) The ‘trilogy’ had grown to 11 volumes and one prequel at the time of Jordan’s death this week, and remains incomplete, almost 18 years after it began.

All of which makes me doubly glad that I write most of my books way before the series begins publication–and am in fact often the one waiting impatiently for the books to be published! I wouldn’t want to be in GRRM’s shoes–and certainly not much-lamented Robert Jordan’s.

But the animation is cute.