I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
GRRM.
Like way to give the most bare minimum sparks notes ass bullshit version of what is probably a very interesting conclusion to his series. Imagine your magnum opus gets essentially spoiled to the entire world and they do such a poor job of spoiling that story that now no one is interested in reading the real thing.
Also he’s not even that old! He still has time to finish them! I feel like he’s got a lot done and just waiting to announce both so he can be done in one fell swoop.
I fear the reason TWOW and whatever book 7 is going to be is being frantically reworked, because he realized that whatever arch had the show ending like it did doesn’t make sense for the characters at all (especially since the books have multiple other factors that will change how the ending comes about)
He’s 75. Life expectancy for men in the US is like 77. The man isn’t living like Jack LaLanne either.
I’m sorry, but he’s old.
I just saw Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney live recently and they’re both well into their 80s. Still killing it and Bob has a new album, along with his welding and paintings he does.
He’s old yes, but not too old to not finish them.
Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan aren’t now, not have they ever been overweight.