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D<\/span>ear George R R Martin,\n\nKing of the Fandoms, Sass-monster of the West, Celebrated Sociopath, and (surprisingly) Non-British genius.\n\nYou\u2019ve turned 69! That\u2019s a pretty cool age to be. Are you reading this with a beer in hand? Or better still, a pen?\n\nOkay, now hold on. Before you get riled by the idea that I might proceed to nag you into improving your pace, know that I\u2019m completely aware of the fact that you are <\/p>not my bitch<\/a>. Nor anyone else\u2019s.\n\nNo, I\u2019m not here to nag. I\u2019m here for a confessional. You see, dear George, I am in trouble. I had never been the kind of kid to sit at home and read, but after my family moved to Kerala, I was faced with the daunting task of settling into a different culture with new people, and a new language. And let\u2019s face it, kids are mean. (By the way, Robert Arryn<\/a>? He better fly soon.)\n\nSo, I withdrew into my room, spending more time indoors than ever before. I hid behind paperbacks and became addicted to serial fiction right from the moment I picked up my first Enid Blyton. I was damned to turn from page to page, getting lost in different worlds, and seeking out new stories obsessively. \u201cWasting time\u201d, my kindly teachers called it. But me with my torchlight under the bedsheet didn\u2019t give a damn. With each tale, I evolved. Harry Potter<\/em> made me braver, His Dark Materials<\/em> made me more inquisitive, andTwilight<\/em> taught me to never fucking touch vampire-related fiction again.\n

Go ahead. Smash another guitar. Kill off a few more Starks. Let off some steam.<\/blockquote>\nOver time, this addiction has evolved into some kind of phobia \u2013 the fear of leaving a series halfway. In a world that has documented a fear of balloons (globophobia), a fear of belly buttons (omphalophobia) and a fear of crossing bridges\u2026 even the smallest ones (gephyrophobia), I\u2019m amazed that nobody has documented this fear that grips a reader of serial fiction and leaves them tormented at the thought of not being able to finish a novel. It dogs the likes of me as we go about our days, distracting us from work and conversation. We can picture vividly each cover of the novels that lie incomplete. Absolutely nothing<\/em> frightens us more than the prospect of leaving one novel unfinished.\n\nAnd this makes us think about the author obsessively. We get wildly high-strung if we see photos of him at a party or a talk show. We\u2019re swamped by this irrational fear that I am now going to name for the sake of all of us who have endlessly suffered. It\u2019s called Fomophobia. (Fear of Missing Out, for the uninitiated. And yes, I didn\u2019t put a single original thought into this.)\n\nAnyway, I first realised this phobia when I began reading the Power of Five<\/em> series by Anthony Horowitz. The nauseating anxiety I experienced as I turned the last page of Necropolis<\/em> remains fresh in my memory. The lives of one of my favourite characters hung in the balance, and I was swamped with sinking dread every time I thought of Horowitz sleeping, eating, dancing, talking, watching a movie or doing anything else but writing. It took him over three years \u2026THREE YEARS\u2026 to complete the final novel, Oblivion<\/em>, and when it finally came out, the unthinkable had happened\u2026 I had grown out of him. I was done with the series.\n\nSometimes, I still recall those final pages of Necropolis<\/em> and idly wonder whether the author let her survive (if it were up to you, she\u2019d pakka be dead). Or whether the protagonists eventually succeed with minimum collateral damage (yeah, what do you know about minimum damage?).\n\nYou\u2019re right, I could have just bought Oblivion<\/em> and found out, but for the life of me, I couldn\u2019t muster the energy. Because it has been far too long. The details of the series, along with the names of some characters, have slipped out of my memory. I\u2019d have to re-read the previous instalments to catch up again, and who on earth has time for that anymore? In an age where we\u2019re struggling to dedicate a good hour to reading a new novel, why would one go back to a previous set of books and increase their backlog?\n\nI was concerned, Anthony Horowitz had faded into the very same oblivion that he took three years over.\n\nAnyway, Game of Thrones<\/em> came along in the meanwhile and changed the map of my brain. But now, ever since the moment I completed A Dance with Dragons,<\/em> that intense terror has returned. I yearn for Winds of Winter<\/em> with the same Fomophobia that makes it impossible for me to do anything else but obsess about what you could possibly be doing with your time other than writing?\n\n\u201cYOU SAID YOU WOULDN\u2019T NAG!\u201d I can hear you shouting. Well, I kind of lied. Like Joffrey<\/a> did to Ned<\/a>. (Thanks, that bit of the story gave me some serious trust issues.)\n\nGo ahead. Smash another guitar<\/a>. Kill off a few more Starks. Let off some steam. But do what you were put on this sweet Earth to do: Write George, write like the wind.<\/a>\n\n*Runs for cover*\n\nYours,\n\nA dedicated reader\n\nP.S: Anyway, I\u2019ve heard on the grapevine that Anthony Horowitz now suffers from athazagoraphobia\u2026 the fear of being forgotten #justsaying.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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