George R.R. Martin

3 entries. 855 words.

2012-04

  • Book and Chapter Word Counts. 2012-04-01. Since I’m an aspiring writer, I am intensely curious about some of the “inside baseball” facts of the books I read. A took a random selection of Kindle books (the ones that just happened to be on my hard drive at the time) and figured out the approximate word count for each book when converted to plain text.** In the table below, the number of pages is as shown by Amazon.
    • Writing
    776 words
  • 2012 Hugo Award Nominations Announced. 2012-04-07. 2012 Hugo Award Nominations. I have to say I’m a little surprised that A Dance With Dragons is a nominee. It was an awesome book, don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t think it was quite as good as the previous ones in the series. Still, you could do a lot worse. I haven’t read any of the other book nominees.
    • Writing
    61 words

2012-06