The Game of Thrones author has returned to his 'fortress of solitude'
, came out in 2011, has been living in an “isolated mountain cabin,” he wrote, with a revolving staff of assistants .
“My life up here is very boring, it must be said,” he wrote. “Truth be told, I hardly can be said to have a life. I have one assistant with me at all times . The assistants do two-week shifts, and have to stay in quarantine at home before starting a shift. Everyone morning I wake up and go straight to the computer, where my minion brings me coffee and juice, and sometimes a light breakfast. Then I start to write. Sometimes I stay at it until dark.
Martin added that he has stayed relatively secluded since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and that “weeks and months go by when I never leave the cabin, or see another human being except whoever is on duty that week. I lose track of what day it is, what week it is, what month it is. The time seems to by very fast. It is now August, and I don’t know what happened to July.”If the famed author’s existence sounds a bit spartan, perhaps he has heeded his own previous words.
—by giving himself an ultimatum to have the finished manuscript in his hands by summer 2020. If that didn’t happen, he wrote, “you have here my formal written permission to imprison me in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid, until I’m done. Just so long as the acrid fumes do not screw up my old DOS word processor, I’ll be fine.”
Presumably, his current location is low enough on acrid fumes that he should be able to bang out a few chapters before next year.
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