14 DAY TRIAL // Last night, George R.R. Martin, one of the most blood-thirsty authors in fiction today, was present on the Conan O'Brien show, and the discussion veered, unsurprisingly, to his predisposition to kill off major characters from his “Game of Thrones” series at the blink of an eye.
Martin confessed that it would have been hard to kill off characters had the books been written together with the show, because he claims he took a liking to many of the actors, including Jack Gleeson, who portrayed the abhorrent King Joffrey, about whom he says he's a really nice guy in real life.
As it was, the murders were committed years ago and he had no remorse. However, he did acknowledge the fact that the producers on the show often took things “all the way to 11” and killed off character who were still alive and well in his books.
For this, Martin sometimes complains but claims that in the end he is powerless, and he has to make due with just a heads up.
The other interesting thing that Martin confessed to was the fact that he still used a DOS Word processor for typing his books, a program from the `80s, which is called Wordstar 4.0. This is done in order to protect his works from modern-day computer viruses that could ruin all his assiduous work.
