{"id":3507,"date":"2009-06-22T23:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2017-09-22T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:37:41","slug":"guarded-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2009\/06\/22\/guarded-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guarded Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost hate to say anything here, for fear of jinxing it&#8230; but for what it&#8217;s worth, the last six weeks or so have been the most productive period I&#8217;ve had on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS in&#8230; well&#8230; a year at least, maybe several.  In the last three days I&#8217;ve completed three new chapters.  Not from scratch, mind you, these were all chapters that had been partially written, and in some cases rewritten, for months if not years.  But they&#8217;re finally done, and I&#8217;ve just reread them, and I&#8217;m almost convinced that they&#8217;re Not Crap.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how I feel tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know I don&#8217;t talk about DANCE frequently here, and that&#8217;s not going to change.  Sorry, but I&#8217;m never going to be one of these writers who blogs daily about how many words they produced today.  I don&#8217;t like to talk about the good days for fear of jinxing myself (all writers are superstitious at heart, just like baseball players), and I don&#8217;t like to talk about the bad days&#8230; well, just because.  Writing is like sausage making in my view; you&#8217;ll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what&#8217;s gone into it.<\/p>\n<p>But I am making a small exception now because&#8230; well, I&#8217;m feeling rather jazzed right now, and for the first time in a very long while, I think I can see a glimmering that might just be a light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I can only slash through the Meereenese knot that I&#8217;ve been worrying at since 2005, I may actually start to get excited. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost hate to say anything here, for fear of jinxing it&#8230; but for what it&#8217;s worth, the last six weeks or so have been the most productive period I&#8217;ve had on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS in&#8230; well&#8230; a year at least, maybe several. In the last three days I&#8217;ve completed three new chapters. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[237],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}