Can't Sleep So I Read & Write

Hey world, it's Russ. Been awhile. Anyways, started pushing myself to run, lift, and sauna every day recently but still can't sleep easy. Pain in my neck just won't let me get comfortable enough to fall asleep. So here I am bored and tired, yet can't sleep so I read and write. I may actually post this, who knows.

Went looking for information about one of my favorite author's (George R. R. Martin) progress on his next book, and found something interesting. He's written three novellas in The Song of Ice & Fire universe that were published in three different compilations of short stories and essays by numerous authors. They all follow two characters around 70-90 years before Game of Thrones and the following books' plot lines. It also looks like HBO is planning on making them into a prequel tv series if the author doesn't finish his next two books before the original series overruns what's already been published. He also has said there is potential to publish at least six more novellas along the prequel plot line at some point. Hope he gets it all finished and published into one book I can add to my GRRM collection.

Truthfully, I'm more worried the guy will kick the bucket before he finishes the story at the pace he writes and he has said no other author would be allowed to finish the story. Been reading the series since I received the first book as a freshman in high school for a Christmas present. A Dance with Dragons (book 5) was published in 2011 so I will hope for 2015 for the next installment, The Winds of Winter. Suppose 2018 is too much to ask for book seven huh? So many questions remain in the series. Do the Targaryens gather what is left of the Valyrians in the Free Cities? Who are Jon Snow's true parents? What happened to Eddard Stark's wife? Or all of the Stark direwolves? So many characters that could get more flushing out with motives, backstory, and current plot actions. By the end there will still be plenty of questions as to what the hell is going to happen but I suppose we'll find out a little bit at a time.

So if you ever wondered what a guy like me thinks about when I can't sleep for any apparent reason, there you go. Books I've read so many times I lost count. Oh, and HBO's third season of Game of Thrones starts on March 31. Check out the first two seasons on DVD before then. Even my baby bro reads these books after watching the first season. I bet even some of my hometown friends realize the show is about those books I was always reading in HS on the bus to sporting events. Who has two thumbs and was ahead of the curve again fellas? This guy! Ow, that motion didn't feel good on the neck.

Forewarning though, the author doesn't keep everyone you come to love alive or in a happily ever after situation. Love it or hate it, makes the storyline a bugger to follow or predict.