We all like to hold off on important things now and then, but I think that it sometimes takes one good example to get us to break our inactive lull.
A perfect such story revolves around the author Goerge R.R. Martin. He writes "A Song of Ice and Fire", an ongoing fantasy series winning multiple awards, topping multiple best seller lists, and now the subject of an upcoming HBO show.
His writing builds a world of real characters fighting for their own ends where tragic things come and go without any greater significance. So many things about it, the descriptions, the plot, the sense of excitement and suspense that Martin seems to have cultivated an instinct for breeding make it wonderful.
He is only on the 4th book of seven, each being close to 1,000 pages depending on the format, and the series has already taken him years. He is 61 and some fans fear that he may die before completing the stories.
That would be one of the greater tragedies for fantasy readers, and at the least, he may no longer be writing in his peak form when he concludes the story.
What does this mean to us? Martin had and has the talent to leave humanity with a unique contribution, and this is jeopardized by how late in his career he began the works.
Get something done right away : ).
As for me, I have time to finally see to some writing now that I am in Spain, and that is wonderful.
Best,
Tim
Bonus: Martin does all of his writing on a bare-bones DOS only computer with no internet connection. Talk about a good idea to remove the Facebook plague?
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