I appreciate that about him though. He really wants to leave his books up to interpretation and let the audience decide what they mean, unlike that other big fantasy author lol.
are you people listening? are you paying attention? life and real human history are a mess! there are no neat endings. but yall wont understand this part until youre old and grey. so i guess we got many years of still listening to people whine about the ending.
@@ryanricks3002 That was exactly what I heard in my head as soon as he asked the question! The only people worse than him are Ramsey and maybe Joffrey. He literally murdered two innocent children to look tough in front of his men for losing Bran and Rickon. His sister described him perfectly. Are you the dumbest #%^* that ever lived?
@@gabrielp9646 I wish GRRM could find out who his true fans are so he could S08 the last book(s) for the public (whiney *fans*) then give the true fans the real ending without anyone else knowing.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Yes, those. Like entitled parents who want their kids to get married and have children before they´re 30, and those bosses at the office who want their employers to follow a certain dress code... It´s none your business. And you don´t even realize how big of a part you play in the fact that he hasn´t finished the books yet.
For someone in my mid 30's, I hope that a LOT of young fantasy writers (and others) are leaning from this man. I don't know that he have had this much access to a writer who has had this much success. I hope to see many young writers take the lead in this genre. I have my fingers crossed that in 10 years, I have another FANTASTIC series of books to read and another great TV show (or movie) to watch.
Some people get upset that he does interviews instead of writing, but the fact that we get so much insight to a genius mind is so underrated. Like I wish we could get something like that from ancient classic authors
I wasn’t a Wattpad reader, or a fanfic fanatic, but I feel like the access to that writing platform had to have done some thing to encourage people to be writers. George RR Martin is just showing them how to be good writers!
Yeah I’ve learned not to be a pervert and you can reduce the size of your books significantly because you won’t have useless disgusting sex scenes with 8yr old children
Your wish is my command. Working on a novel now. Two years of mapping out timelines and character archs. And two years of writing and im well under a 3rd of the way into writing the first book. And already have a set mind of how to wrap up the series. Hope to be done by next year with the first book and start looking for a publisher. So in ten years, Look out for an Aztec boy named Tobias and his slave girl Savanna to be on HBO. Or read the books on the shelves one day :) Book 1. The Cave Book 2. The Cove Book 3. The Cavern Book 4. The Covenant Ahead of time ..youre welcome ☺️
I love watching interviews with GRRM, what a wonderful time it would be just to pick his philosophical brain! I especially enjoy the thoughtfulness he puts into every question regardless of how many times he's answered it in past interviews.
I like the way you ask him the questions. You give him plenty of room and don't seem to undermine anything about his process which appears to give him plenty of space to give you information. Well done man!
Ahhhhg. It's so satisfying to hear him talk about how scenes unfold. Having story teller architype is one of the best psychological joys of my life and it's exactly how he explains. I just watch. I'm the first viewer of that unfolding, most perfect in its pure form - an apparition from another realm and you are merely its witness.
Woah, the first interview i've seen in a long time that i haven't seen before. Also coincidentally perhaps one of the best interviews ever, and also done by the most unexpected socal looking dude who also happens to be a great interviewer? What the hell is going on?
Omg that part about riding around Chicago looking through the window and having this visions and ideas..that's me, always happens and I learned to enjoy it so much, it was almost like meditation.
@Bann me Again nazis Yeah the questions were good, from the bassist of the Sneaker Kings and from Xtina, the barrio honey on the cover of Fresh Donuts. That first question was a lil out there though lol. The full interview is in the description and you can check out more of his channel. I stand by my original comment lol.
I think George's smartest move is being abstract in his answers. If you give a straightforward answer it can be picked apart and being abstract in your answers allows people to view your work as art and see more into it than even you meant to put into it, and by not being rigid in his answers he can lay claim to everyone's analysis of his work.
The other hard thing about writing is agreeing to do a stage musical and a ton of TV prequels and a spinoff book series instead of finishing the main book series.
When you create something of value that is important to you, that is your profession, see if you turn down an absurd amount of money for people to make other things with it.
I've been an amateur writer since I first learned to write, but have never had time to finish a project; What he describes about how his stories come to him and how words are both tools but stubborn and flawed in how they convey the true feelings of the story within the mind is just chilling to me because it's exactly how I form my own stories and how I feel when I try to put them to paper. I couldn't have explained it any more clearly myself.
Thats not fun when that happens, trying different things get stuck etc. I produced some beats/music, its litterally the same, this beat in my head how to translate it, sometimes you get stuck or this piano note/ or this word doesnt quite fit etc Now i want to be a writer/blog post writer. And im learning that its basically the same. We cant escape translating our creativity in our heads. Is that a hard pill to swallow for you? For me it is
You're most certainly an amateur writer. Your grammar and sentence structuring requires work. When you're writing, the use of, 'comma's' is absolutely essential, as they convey how the sentence and words are meant to be spoken. Using, 'colons' was not needed once in your two sentences. You had 80 words from the beginning of your sentence, until your first period. Yes, I counted the words. Concise, detailed, and expressive words/sentences are all the hallmarks of a good writer. (And proof-reading before submitting) I am extremely grateful that I had the hardest English Teacher during my High School experience, as she taught me how to apply those key hallmarks to my writing style. Starting on your grammar, is a good start to becoming an expressive writer. It's funny, I never finished my Grade 12 as I was a couple credits short. I never felt any need to go back, as there was nothing left for me to gain from that generalized education program. I excelled in all subjects, especially English. Once I got bored and proved to myself I could easily get high marks, I stopped bothering to exert any additional effort. It was a waste of my time. However, I wrote Master-Level University Essays and Papers for a Friend, and they all received an, 'A-Mark'. The closest project I have to writing a story, was when I made the storyline for my, '4-Hour' Fallout 4 Movie. I had a general idea of the storyline on how to begin and end the plot. I filled in the dialogue and all the details as I filmed and edited the project. Intuition is what helped guide me through the story. That was around a 100-page script that I managed to finish in just a little over 1000 hours, and 3 months of 12 hour days to complete. That included building the sets, filming, editing, writing dialogue, voice-acting, etc. That Fallout 4 project was amazing for me, and it was an absolute joy to work on. There is one aspect of writing that is absolutely essential, you need the passion and knowledge to be able to effectively write a story with a compelling plotline. I could very easily write a book or a novel. However, I require something to be passionate and knowledgeable enough about, to be able to write something of significance. If you write for the sake of writing, the end result will never turn out well. Good luck with your future writing endeavors. 😀
@@james8130 All stories already exist. As they say, 'There is nothing new under the Sun.' (Can you find any movie that isn't a repeat of another movie, just with different characters?) That phrase holds absolute truth when you realize history is a farce, and we have discovered technologies time and time again. If you can imagine it, it has already happened. Thank you for the kind words. I am assuming you watched the entire 4 hours of the Movie? Exactly what was the plotline of my story? Why do people feel the need to cut other people down for their own, 'self-gratification'? I offered constructive criticism from someone with an extensive writing background, and what did I receive in return? A biased, defensive response based on only your reactive emotions and nothing on actual fact. Please, I would be more than happy to engage into an intelligent debate with you. However if you're unwilling to act respectfully and with a mature temperament, I cannot indulge in any more replies. Nobody asked Sly Gaming to leave his comment. Nobody asked you to reply to my comment. Nobody asked me for my opinion. Yet, all 3 of us offered our opinion and comments without being asked. Some of us expressing ourselves far more articulate than others. Enjoy the FREEDOM to speak while you still are able, it won't be lasting for very much longer. Is there anything else I am able to entertain you with? It's always a pleasure talking to a faceless account. KEYNOTE: Bullying has no effect on me. Intimidation has no effect on me. Blackmailing has no effect on me. And ESPECIALLY Trolling, has no effect on me. Now, than you for that empty reply. It gave my small, insignificant brain some time to flex it's capacity right after waking up. CHEERS🍻
I never even considered the lord of light and fire as being anti-winter. Obviously it makes sense, but it's motive would be interesting to explore and why it champions certain characters over others...
I thought that was common knowledge. It's literally what the books are about! (But then again I have watched way too many theories) aka The Many Faced God was called "The Red God" oh the show aka The Lord of Light. So no wonder Arya was chosen to help without knowing. In the books the MFG is all the gods in one. He hates when death is stolen from him. What steals from death? Zombies. The undead. It makes sense that the MFG would send Arya to give a million deaths to him. It's not done well in the show.
The real question that needs to be asked is when will George give Jeyne Poole a break. She’s done literally nothing wrong and has a life probably worse than Theon. And (SPOILERS for Theon sample chapter) after getting rescued by Theon she still doesn’t get a break!! She gets frostbite and broken ribs. WTF George
Martin is constantly reminding the audience that he's just writing as realistic as possible. It's a fictional universe, but the characters behave as real people and can get unlucky in the same way. In our real world there are maybe millions of people living lives worse than Jeyne Poole's - there's just usually nobody to tell their story.
His recollection about riding the "L" train in Chicago perfectly describes the way inspiration often strikes me. So many times I've been sat on a bus or train for a work commute and a scene or sentence just pops into my head. The lucky thing these days is that we've all got phones with notepads on, so it's easy to get your thoughts down quickly, however dumb they might seem later. I've got 355 notes in my phone at the moment, and that's after purging a lot of it (be it through deletion, combining with other notes, or transferring onto my PC).
I'm hoping my man San (The Hound) also heard something in the flames when he got burned, and that somehow established a connection between himself and Rhllor. Which will make him a vital figure in the story going forward. I thought the show was headed in that direction by having him receive/accurately interpret a fire vision on his first attempt, but as usual they squandered good character development. Also, despite The Hound's assault being reason enough to fear the flames, I'd imagine having heard a voice in the fire as it happened would propel those feelings to a whole new stratosphere. PS- I'd say George gave Theon several breaks...😆🤷♀️.
He's either dead or as the grave digger theory goes, the wounds he took crippled him and nearly killed him but he was found and healed by the elder brother of the quiet isle and works as a novice monk atoning for his many sins. The theory has alot of good evidence behind it and I personally believe it.
are yall listening? are you paying attention to his words? life and real human history are a mess! things dont ever wrap up with a smooth sensible ending. people remember things how they want to remember them. history books are written by the winner. honorable ned won that fight in dorne by cheating! there was never meant to be a beautiful ending. life doesnt have that.
"What did Varys hear in the flames?" "Oh, you know, everyone sees things from their own perspective, what Did Varys hear? Did he really hear Anything?" Translation: "I hadn't thought about it. It made for a creepy scene at the time, but it wasn't important to me what the voice said at the time, if anything....". "When will you give Theon Greyjoy a break?" Gleeful laughter. Somewhere in one of the books, Theon is strapped to a wooden beam being neutered by Ramsey, and hallucinates he's hearing gleeful laughter.....
@@toughmunths it could be a metaphor. When i was a kid i rode over a ramp on my pushbike. I crashed on landing. Hurt and bruised, i looked back at the ramp and i heard a vouce from the ramp....”don’t ride over ramps again...”
Or it could be Varys being schizo. I'm sure a person like George who is very logical to have encounter with something beyond, was it mental deterioration?
As a writer, it's intense for him to be so calm about "well I'll let you find that out yourself" I constantly have the urge to tell people all my reasonings I want to be vague. I'm not good at keeping secrets, but I'm good at being vague 😂
Man I can’t get enough of all these George RR Martin interviews on TH-cam. Looks like that man talked to everybody. Can we get George RR on with Letterman on that new Netflix show?? Or fucken Joe Rogan? Tyson??? Iunno shit I’ll even take him on The Shop with Lebron...
A new George RR Martin interview on TH-cam!?!? It's been years!! I'm thankful for this... I had watched the same vids about him talking about Gardener and Architect, and talking about Tolkien making Good guys and bad guys not have enough grey and not explaining Aragorn's tax policy, like 100 times each! 😂 Still kind of surprised a question was "What does Ice and Fire mean" though 😳🧐 uhmm, sir
I always thought a "song of ice and fire" symbolized many things in the story, but one of the biggest things it referred to was the brief *song* of John and Dany's love.
Really? Jon and Dany's love? What love? LMAO. It would make more sense if is about Rhaegar and Lyanna, since the whole conflict is about Jon's true parentage.
It's not about anyone in particular it's about two elements that could've been anyone it's just that rhaegar followed through with it and made it into reality. There is no destiny only clever chest pieces
in other words, he wrote that varys heard a voice answer back, but never thought anyone would care what the voice said,and never even cared to write what it said.
I think the point is more to expone Varys' motivation more than set up a plot line about a voice in the fires It simply tells the reader that Varys will do everything he can to prevent followers of the red god to rise to power
If only there was a limitless pill which he can take to finish a novel in a day and then continue to give us a book from from the world of ASOIAF daily. We can have so much lore that we can indulge ourselves daily with a new book.
I think him for that because I’m working on a television show myself and I just did the first episode and yes it is exactly like he said getting it from your head wanted the paper can be difficult and sometimes they can just write itself
Implying that Varys wasn't hearing what he was hearing (if Varys wasn't just lying about hearing it) is a strange take. What, I mean the voice wasn't coming from the flames, but rather from his captor? I guess.
"I don't think in terms of overall themes" FINALLY! Thank you George to say this. I'm sure this has angered a few people who see the "theme" as the only important part of a story and use it to brush off any flaw or plot hole in it...
George is just chillin' while doing an interview in Dorne ...
Classic supervillain trope.
Dorne is Chillville
Watergardens
As he should 👑
Ye he looks well relaxed
Interviewer: “did this thing happen?”
GRRM: “yesn’t”
😂
hahah you have to be an Aussie. Haven't heard yesn't in a long time!
LOL 😆 🤣 😂
Voice in the flames:
BUILD ME AN ARMY WORTHY OF MORRDOOORRR!!
Yes!!!
Voice in the flames to GRRM: "FINISH THE DAMN BOOKS ALREADY!"
Lol
@Georg Tolstoj Very much. Guys not consistent but he's brilliant. It's a big book.
Lmbo
Why is the interviewer looking like a 2000's male lead in a skateboarding TV commercial? XD
Facts George RR Martin talks to everybody that’s a nobody and not anybody that’s a somebody
😂😂😂 you've made my day
Man's dressed like dry and silent Bob at the same time
@@jamestaylor841Jay and Silent Bob... And you have a point!!! Lol😂
It's nice to see Fred Durst taking time out of his busy schedule to interview Ernest Hemingway.
😂🤣😅
The old man and the drop c
Original comment...
Lmaoooooooo
😂😂😂
This man is the master of answering and not answering questions 🙄 love him
I appreciate that about him though. He really wants to leave his books up to interpretation and let the audience decide what they mean, unlike that other big fantasy author lol.
@@t_ylr what other big fantasy author who J.R.R. Tolkien?
@@greenyeti9078 yeah
are you people listening? are you paying attention? life and real human history are a mess! there are no neat endings. but yall wont understand this part until youre old and grey. so i guess we got many years of still listening to people whine about the ending.
@@welcometohell5233 think you are misunderstanding why people hate the ending.
The voice in the flames: “Re-Film season 8”
lol
That's fucking hilarious
Start again with a rewrite of season 5, and work from there.
Definitely a more worthy goal then Snyderverse.
More like re-film everything after season 2
I love how George strokes his beard constantly.
He’s what I imagine a maester would be like
Gandalf in the 21st century...
@@XiangYu94 he’s Samuel Tarly dude
Metal Santa
Makes me feel a whole lot better about how much I stroke my beard as well.
Interviewer: “When will you give Theon a break”
GRRM: (laughs maniacally)
Never !
@@ryanricks3002 That was exactly what I heard in my head as soon as he asked the question!
The only people worse than him are Ramsey and maybe Joffrey. He literally murdered two innocent children to look tough in front of his men for losing Bran and Rickon. His sister described him perfectly. Are you the dumbest #%^* that ever lived?
"Well, I don't think in terms of giving people a break." - God
I came here for the same comment. Game of Thrones is frighteningly realistic.
Lol... no bs
He said, "Well, I dont think in terms...." so many damn times...
Voice: "You will never finish the books."
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA. Sadly that was probably it
Voice: "You will never get rid of whinny fans".
@@gabrielp9646 I wish GRRM could find out who his true fans are so he could S08 the last book(s) for the public (whiney *fans*) then give the true fans the real ending without anyone else knowing.
@@gabrielp9646 Ah yes, those whiny fans expecting the sequel to be done in less than a decade. Such entitlement!
@@legrandliseurtri7495 Yes, those. Like entitled parents who want their kids to get married and have children before they´re 30, and those bosses at the office who want their employers to follow a certain dress code... It´s none your business. And you don´t even realize how big of a part you play in the fact that he hasn´t finished the books yet.
This was the last dude I thought to interview GRRM but this guy did a decent job with it.
He should have mentioned something about the Ambatakum War.
Someone: *asks questions*
*Ten years later*
GRRM: "Well..."
I mean I like how he actually takes a moment to think instead of jumping to the first thing that comes to mind.
like a true thinker
"...there are two types of writers..."
@@magisterofsteam7880 it's a joke about how he hasn't written the next book in a highly anticipated novel.
Whoaaa!! I thought I'd seen all the GRRM interviews on TH-cam. This is great to see GRRM just chillin and casually answering questions!
For someone in my mid 30's, I hope that a LOT of young fantasy writers (and others) are leaning from this man. I don't know that he have had this much access to a writer who has had this much success. I hope to see many young writers take the lead in this genre. I have my fingers crossed that in 10 years, I have another FANTASTIC series of books to read and another great TV show (or movie) to watch.
Some people get upset that he does interviews instead of writing, but the fact that we get so much insight to a genius mind is so underrated. Like I wish we could get something like that from ancient classic authors
You want all writers to open mystery boxes that they will never answer.
Sounds stupid to me.
I wasn’t a Wattpad reader, or a fanfic fanatic, but I feel like the access to that writing platform had to have done some thing to encourage people to be writers. George RR Martin is just showing them how to be good writers!
Yeah I’ve learned not to be a pervert and you can reduce the size of your books significantly because you won’t have useless disgusting sex scenes with 8yr old children
Your wish is my command. Working on a novel now. Two years of mapping out timelines and character archs. And two years of writing and im well under a 3rd of the way into writing the first book. And already have a set mind of how to wrap up the series. Hope to be done by next year with the first book and start looking for a publisher. So in ten years, Look out for an Aztec boy named Tobias and his slave girl Savanna to be on HBO. Or read the books on the shelves one day :)
Book 1. The Cave
Book 2. The Cove
Book 3. The Cavern
Book 4. The Covenant
Ahead of time ..youre welcome ☺️
I love him I love him please be happy George
I love watching interviews with GRRM, what a wonderful time it would be just to pick his philosophical brain!
I especially enjoy the thoughtfulness he puts into every question regardless of how many times he's answered it in past interviews.
I just realised that I needed a video like this one today. Thanks for uploading it.🍸
The "How do you get your ideas" question never ceases to repeat itself, disguised, but always there.
Where do you get your ideas from
I like the way you ask him the questions. You give him plenty of room and don't seem to undermine anything about his process which appears to give him plenty of space to give you information. Well done man!
What's in the video: GRRM answering questions.
What's not in the video: GRRM talking about the voice Varys heard in the fire.
Ahhhhg. It's so satisfying to hear him talk about how scenes unfold. Having story teller architype is one of the best psychological joys of my life and it's exactly how he explains. I just watch. I'm the first viewer of that unfolding, most perfect in its pure form - an apparition from another realm and you are merely its witness.
Woah, the first interview i've seen in a long time that i haven't seen before. Also coincidentally perhaps one of the best interviews ever, and also done by the most unexpected socal looking dude who also happens to be a great interviewer? What the hell is going on?
voice in the flames:
"SEASON EIGHT IS GONNA SUUUUUUUUCK"
"AND OH YEAH MAYBE TRY TO FIND A FIREPROOF CLOAAAAAAK"
_"Maybe take a holiday in X years X months and X weeks"_
_"NO NOT WITH HER"_
*Voice in the flames:* "George, finish the bloody books!" ~
glad to see that Fred Durst is doing something interesting
Love how he's so laid back in the shade chillin...
@ 00:10 when it cuts to him just chilling in the water gardens lmao
Omg that part about riding around Chicago looking through the window and having this visions and ideas..that's me, always happens and I learned to enjoy it so much, it was almost like meditation.
"My fire's going to get the rest of this bastard in season 8"
- The Voice
Wow I had no idea Fred Durst was an Ice and Fire fan..
Interviewer: how long does it take you to write a chapter?
George: I really don’t know cause I don’t write anymore.
I love that GRRM is getting interviewed by this guy from the skate park who constantly mentions in what kind of band random people are in :D
Thanks for the continuous great uploads 👍🏾
I still think “a song of ice and fire” means simply the story of jon snow or the story of his parents love affair
Probably a reference to the Robert Frost anti-war poem
The dude asking the question has smoked himself foolish. It's like GRRM is being interviewed by Juggalo Nation.
It's probably more than one thing. Seems unlikely it would only be Jon's parents since he's only one character in a very complex, sprawling story.
Ice = Jon Snow | Fire = Daenerys Targaryen
@Bann me Again nazis Yeah the questions were good, from the bassist of the Sneaker Kings and from Xtina, the barrio honey on the cover of Fresh Donuts. That first question was a lil out there though lol. The full interview is in the description and you can check out more of his channel. I stand by my original comment lol.
It takes between 2 days to 10 years to write a chapter. This is why GRRM is so great. He japes at everyone.
I think George's smartest move is being abstract in his answers. If you give a straightforward answer it can be picked apart and being abstract in your answers allows people to view your work as art and see more into it than even you meant to put into it, and by not being rigid in his answers he can lay claim to everyone's analysis of his work.
A great mystery I wanted addressed in the show (more than just having Varys killed by dragon fire). This is awesome!
He won’t address it. Not his style
I like how so much mystery is left to just think about.
I don't think the author himself knows at all what Varys heard....
Drogon heard he got his man parts burned off and wanted to reunite his body lol
A truly brilliant man.
'the hard work is translating that to the screen. Without accidentally showing emelia's Starbucks coffee on the table'
The other hard thing about writing is agreeing to do a stage musical and a ton of TV prequels and a spinoff book series instead of finishing the main book series.
A fking musical...
And videogames too.
When you create something of value that is important to you, that is your profession, see if you turn down an absurd amount of money for people to make other things with it.
Thanks for these uploads
I've been an amateur writer since I first learned to write, but have never had time to finish a project; What he describes about how his stories come to him and how words are both tools but stubborn and flawed in how they convey the true feelings of the story within the mind is just chilling to me because it's exactly how I form my own stories and how I feel when I try to put them to paper. I couldn't have explained it any more clearly myself.
Thats not fun when that happens, trying different things get stuck etc.
I produced some beats/music, its litterally the same, this beat in my head how to translate it, sometimes you get stuck or this piano note/ or this word doesnt quite fit etc
Now i want to be a writer/blog post writer. And im learning that its basically the same. We cant escape translating our creativity in our heads.
Is that a hard pill to swallow for you? For me it is
You're most certainly an amateur writer. Your grammar and sentence structuring requires work. When you're writing, the use of, 'comma's' is absolutely essential, as they convey how the sentence and words are meant to be spoken. Using, 'colons' was not needed once in your two sentences. You had 80 words from the beginning of your sentence, until your first period. Yes, I counted the words. Concise, detailed, and expressive words/sentences are all the hallmarks of a good writer. (And proof-reading before submitting) I am extremely grateful that I had the hardest English Teacher during my High School experience, as she taught me how to apply those key hallmarks to my writing style.
Starting on your grammar, is a good start to becoming an expressive writer. It's funny, I never finished my Grade 12 as I was a couple credits short. I never felt any need to go back, as there was nothing left for me to gain from that generalized education program. I excelled in all subjects, especially English. Once I got bored and proved to myself I could easily get high marks, I stopped bothering to exert any additional effort. It was a waste of my time. However, I wrote Master-Level University Essays and Papers for a Friend, and they all received an, 'A-Mark'.
The closest project I have to writing a story, was when I made the storyline for my, '4-Hour' Fallout 4 Movie. I had a general idea of the storyline on how to begin and end the plot. I filled in the dialogue and all the details as I filmed and edited the project. Intuition is what helped guide me through the story. That was around a 100-page script that I managed to finish in just a little over 1000 hours, and 3 months of 12 hour days to complete. That included building the sets, filming, editing, writing dialogue, voice-acting, etc.
That Fallout 4 project was amazing for me, and it was an absolute joy to work on. There is one aspect of writing that is absolutely essential, you need the passion and knowledge to be able to effectively write a story with a compelling plotline. I could very easily write a book or a novel. However, I require something to be passionate and knowledgeable enough about, to be able to write something of significance. If you write for the sake of writing, the end result will never turn out well.
Good luck with your future writing endeavors. 😀
@@theshadowsovereign8914 nobody asked, and congratulations on writing a story that already exists
@@james8130 All stories already exist. As they say, 'There is nothing new under the Sun.' (Can you find any movie that isn't a repeat of another movie, just with different characters?)
That phrase holds absolute truth when you realize history is a farce, and we have discovered technologies time and time again.
If you can imagine it, it has already happened.
Thank you for the kind words. I am assuming you watched the entire 4 hours of the Movie?
Exactly what was the plotline of my story?
Why do people feel the need to cut other people down for their own, 'self-gratification'? I offered constructive criticism from someone with an extensive writing background, and what did I receive in return? A biased, defensive response based on only your reactive emotions and nothing on actual fact.
Please, I would be more than happy to engage into an intelligent debate with you. However if you're unwilling to act respectfully and with a mature temperament, I cannot indulge in any more replies.
Nobody asked Sly Gaming to leave his comment. Nobody asked you to reply to my comment. Nobody asked me for my opinion. Yet, all 3 of us offered our opinion and comments without being asked. Some of us expressing ourselves far more articulate than others. Enjoy the FREEDOM to speak while you still are able, it won't be lasting for very much longer.
Is there anything else I am able to entertain you with? It's always a pleasure talking to a faceless account.
KEYNOTE: Bullying has no effect on me. Intimidation has no effect on me. Blackmailing has no effect on me. And ESPECIALLY Trolling, has no effect on me.
Now, than you for that empty reply. It gave my small, insignificant brain some time to flex it's capacity right after waking up.
CHEERS🍻
From the many interviews I've watched of George I realized he's one of the most relatable famous writers I've seen, for better or for worse
I never even considered the lord of light and fire as being anti-winter. Obviously it makes sense, but it's motive would be interesting to explore and why it champions certain characters over others...
I thought that was common knowledge. It's literally what the books are about! (But then again I have watched way too many theories)
aka The Many Faced God was called "The Red God" oh the show aka The Lord of Light. So no wonder Arya was chosen to help without knowing.
In the books the MFG is all the gods in one. He hates when death is stolen from him. What steals from death? Zombies. The undead. It makes sense that the MFG would send Arya to give a million deaths to him.
It's not done well in the show.
The voice: "Bring me more ballssssssss"
The real question that needs to be asked is when will George give Jeyne Poole a break. She’s done literally nothing wrong and has a life probably worse than Theon. And (SPOILERS for Theon sample chapter) after getting rescued by Theon she still doesn’t get a break!! She gets frostbite and broken ribs. WTF George
Poor Jeyne indeed. Poole and Westerling, at that. Tho Jeyne definitely has had it worse.
@Not Alfie Yeah I know it's just did he really have to make her get frostbite though :(
Martin is constantly reminding the audience that he's just writing as realistic as possible. It's a fictional universe, but the characters behave as real people and can get unlucky in the same way. In our real world there are maybe millions of people living lives worse than Jeyne Poole's - there's just usually nobody to tell their story.
Names matter to George enough to represent who they are. Jeyne Poole, Gene Pool; not sure what that has to do with her poor treatment tho
She probably be queen of the North not Sansa. Sansa never even meet Ramsay and dont like North and Winterfell
- the voice in the fire: " save martha"
My heart sunk when he said 2days-10years for a chapter
His recollection about riding the "L" train in Chicago perfectly describes the way inspiration often strikes me. So many times I've been sat on a bus or train for a work commute and a scene or sentence just pops into my head. The lucky thing these days is that we've all got phones with notepads on, so it's easy to get your thoughts down quickly, however dumb they might seem later. I've got 355 notes in my phone at the moment, and that's after purging a lot of it (be it through deletion, combining with other notes, or transferring onto my PC).
Absolutely! I carry around a little notebook just for jotting things down! But when I don't have that with me a phone sure comes handy!
I totally understand, but instead of the train, I get my inspiration while thinking on the porcelain throne.
@@ares23x Can't say it strikes me there very often, but aside from commuting I do often get ideas while taking a shower.
Rekt, how do you transfer notes to the PC ?
I'm hoping my man San (The Hound) also heard something in the flames when he got burned, and that somehow established a connection between himself and Rhllor. Which will make him a vital figure in the story going forward. I thought the show was headed in that direction by having him receive/accurately interpret a fire vision on his first attempt, but as usual they squandered good character development. Also, despite The Hound's assault being reason enough to fear the flames, I'd imagine having heard a voice in the fire as it happened would propel those feelings to a whole new stratosphere.
PS- I'd say George gave Theon several breaks...😆🤷♀️.
He's either dead or as the grave digger theory goes, the wounds he took crippled him and nearly killed him but he was found and healed by the elder brother of the quiet isle and works as a novice monk atoning for his many sins. The theory has alot of good evidence behind it and I personally believe it.
@@nibsthefroggirl8205 And was foreshadowed by his returning Mycah's corpse to castle Darry😉.
I really think Sandor is done in the books. He got a peaceful end.
are yall listening? are you paying attention to his words? life and real human history are a mess! things dont ever wrap up with a smooth sensible ending. people remember things how they want to remember them. history books are written by the winner. honorable ned won that fight in dorne by cheating! there was never meant to be a beautiful ending. life doesnt have that.
@@nibsthefroggirl8205 He's the one who saves Brien of tarth who is a fire wight Brien hears a dark barking and there are hints the hound is a warg
Wow! I had no idea Fred Durst was such a ASOIAF fan!
... That's not Craig Kilborn?
*GR:* "It was me."
This guy is so cool
I’m loving that garden set ! 💞👍🏻❤️👍🏻💞
"What did Varys hear in the flames?"
"Oh, you know, everyone sees things from their own perspective, what Did Varys hear? Did he really hear Anything?"
Translation: "I hadn't thought about it. It made for a creepy scene at the time, but it wasn't important to me what the voice said at the time, if anything....".
"When will you give Theon Greyjoy a break?"
Gleeful laughter.
Somewhere in one of the books, Theon is strapped to a wooden beam being neutered by Ramsey, and hallucinates he's hearing gleeful laughter.....
That Varys part was really suspect to me as well, what could possibly be up for interpretation in that scene. Either a voice spoke back or it didn't.
@@toughmunths Or The Spider is, you know, lying.
@@ungoyone Theres no point in lying. Nothing could ever possibly be gained by lying about this
@@toughmunths it could be a metaphor. When i was a kid i rode over a ramp on my pushbike. I crashed on landing. Hurt and bruised, i looked back at the ramp and i heard a vouce from the ramp....”don’t ride over ramps again...”
Or it could be Varys being schizo. I'm sure a person like George who is very logical to have encounter with something beyond, was it mental deterioration?
oh I love him. I love love love grrm
As a writer, it's intense for him to be so calm about "well I'll let you find that out yourself" I constantly have the urge to tell people all my reasonings I want to be vague. I'm not good at keeping secrets, but I'm good at being vague 😂
As a writer George RR Martin is the only one who's talked about the same things I've felt before I relate to that guy so much it's bonkers
2 days to 10 years. Well, i guess he's only written one chapter since DoD
1 on one 1 calm interviews are absolutely the mode of the future.
Ice looks blue and fire looks red to me.
He wrote a single chapter for winds of winter
😂😂😂😂lost it
You of all people have no business criticizing others.
Why do i get the feeling that this interview was filmed in 2006?! Loved this video ♥️
Probably because of the interviewer's outfit and speech...maybe
Because the interviewer is dressed in the fashion of the 2000s
Man I can’t get enough of all these George RR Martin interviews on TH-cam. Looks like that man talked to everybody. Can we get George RR on with Letterman on that new Netflix show?? Or fucken Joe Rogan? Tyson??? Iunno shit I’ll even take him on The Shop with Lebron...
Did Georgie just hint he’s been stuck on one chapter this last 10 years? Hahaha because I’ve never noticed another 10 year gap between soiaf releases
I’m happy to see I wasn’t the only one who caught that
George’s face after the guy asks the stupidest question. Fire=dragons ice=night king you ingrate.
Yep, that was an idiotic interview. GRRM handled it well considering. The interviewer seemed about as experienced as a frat boy
George is just stroking his beard throughout this entire interview
Hes literally always stroking it lmao, must release nicotine in his system or something
IKR
He is a wizard now
This interview is great 😂😂
Love the interviewer reminds me of the Chris Farley nervous interview guy skits if u don’t kno look it up
Varys better not betray me
💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🐲
that´s something i loved about the show at the start, that it was unclear if this world was full of magic or full of superstition
A new George RR Martin interview on TH-cam!?!? It's been years!! I'm thankful for this... I had watched the same vids about him talking about Gardener and Architect, and talking about Tolkien making Good guys and bad guys not have enough grey and not explaining Aragorn's tax policy, like 100 times each! 😂
Still kind of surprised a question was "What does Ice and Fire mean" though 😳🧐 uhmm, sir
The source video he linked in the video info says 2016. It was new to me too though.
I always thought a "song of ice and fire" symbolized many things in the story, but one of the biggest things it referred to was the brief *song* of John and Dany's love.
Really? Jon and Dany's love? What love? LMAO. It would make more sense if is about Rhaegar and Lyanna, since the whole conflict is about Jon's true parentage.
The Song of Ice and Fire is the Union of Ice and Fire. AKA Jon Snow. The union of the Ice and Fire blood lines
@@luxintenebris1776 agree, and also John Sno, who had zero impact on the story (according to D and D)
@@denisdaly1708 Well Arya would have felt bad if her favorite brother wasn't there to celebrate her killing the Night King.
It's not about anyone in particular it's about two elements that could've been anyone it's just that rhaegar followed through with it and made it into reality. There is no destiny only clever chest pieces
He called him VERYS
GRRM just chillin’ 😂. Thank you for creating ASOIAF!!
in other words, he wrote that varys heard a voice answer back, but never thought anyone would care what the voice said,and never even cared to write what it said.
I think the point is more to expone Varys' motivation more than set up a plot line about a voice in the fires
It simply tells the reader that Varys will do everything he can to prevent followers of the red god to rise to power
That’s one of my favorite features of his stories
Man ... I love these videos 👌
If only there was a limitless pill which he can take to finish a novel in a day and then continue to give us a book from from the world of ASOIAF daily. We can have so much lore that we can indulge ourselves daily with a new book.
Listening to this man talk is really enjoyable. I need to read the damn books already lol
Another author I love is Roger Zelazny who is known for his series Nine Princes in Amber.
He is a genus!
I stroke my beard, and I know things
I feel like a character would remember hearing a fire voice talking 😂
I wish the voice in the flame would tell Martin to finish his goddamn series!!
Did he really just ask him why it's called A Song of Ice and Fire? What a waste of a question
I love George just chilling like a Dwarven Sage stroking his beard and reflecting.
I think him for that because I’m working on a television show myself and I just did the first episode and yes it is exactly like he said getting it from your head wanted the paper can be difficult and sometimes they can just write itself
I'm just glad he didn't stick the mic in GRRM's eye because that would make it even harder for him to write the rest of the series
i love this man
We will not get the final books of the series. I have accepted this.
Implying that Varys wasn't hearing what he was hearing (if Varys wasn't just lying about hearing it) is a strange take. What, I mean the voice wasn't coming from the flames, but rather from his captor? I guess.
The worst thing you can do if you like an author's work is to listen to them talk about it.
"I don't think in terms of overall themes"
FINALLY!
Thank you George to say this.
I'm sure this has angered a few people who see the "theme" as the only important part of a story and use it to brush off any flaw or plot hole in it...
Who uses that when talking about ASOIAF? People were pissed that the show betrayed the themes of the book, almost no one argued what you’re saying
@@YourBlackLocal Not all fans were pissed
The word analogy is perfect.
3:59 ice of fire??
The real answer to all these questions is without a doubt.... WEINERS.
How do people not know ice an fire stands for stark and Targeryan
I highly resonate with the topic of translating scenes onto a paper with clunky words to describe it
Ooh hayy ! I'm digging the question!