By now, followers of George R.R. Martin’s Music of Ice and Fireplace books — the novels tailored into the HBO Max sequence 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 sequence, The Winds of Winter. An episode of the Comedy Central sequence 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 up to now, 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 Every day Present on Dec. 7 at 11:45 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 stunned to listen to how lengthy the e book has been delayed. He means that Martin has “author’s constipation,” and advises him to alter up his writing strategies, when it comes to nonetheless utilizing a DOS laptop and the WordStar phrase processor: “Attempt one thing else, then, ’trigger that’s not working.”
Martin has incessantly expressed that he’s exasperated with followers and interviewers consistently nagging him about his gradual progress on The Winds of Winter, which retains getting sidelined as he works on different HBO reveals and initiatives. However right here, he appears to a minimum of attempt to pressure 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. “Drawback solved!” Patterson says. “You break down the 1,100 pages into three books… You submit one e book per 12 months, they’ll be blissful, and all of the sudden you’ll be forward of schedule!” Martin simply laughs.
Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The Information is at the moment in its third season. Full episodes of the sequence can be found on Paramount Plus, Hulu, and on the Comedy Central web site.