The video starts out with a look inside the beginning of Martin's career and the journey that brought him to the best selling novelist that he is today. I got to admit, it is nice to see that my favorite modern author is human after all, admitting to such common flaws as using too many adjectives when he first started writing. This is a problem that many young writers share, I among them, thinking that they are "enriching" the piece, but rather are killing it by being too descriptive.
Martin's literary resume is both diverse and extremely impressive. In the video, Martin offers a small glimpse inside that career; from his first taste of success to his current state of superstardom. Martin even divulges what it was like to see his career slip away from him after he hit a brief struggle when his book, the Armageddon Rag, failed to gain the popularity that everyone had predicted it would.
And for those Game of Thrones fans out there, Martin brings us deeper inside the HBO hit show, and some of the more memorable scenes from the first two seasons. One fan asks Martin a question about the subtleties of the book, in particular the character Renly Baratheon's sexuality, compared to the openness of the show; a question that I myself have wondered many times. Martin's response is definitely interesting enough to make it worth the watch, stating that he writes the subtleties in for the readers that re-read the stories, where the first read is for the plot and the second is for the subtleties (the foreshadowing and other such techniques).
If you have some time to kill, I recommend you check this video out. At the very least, you might learn something! Martin, after all, is quite good at what he does.
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