Every time someone asks him about the next book, he signs another TV deal out of spite.
next time someone asks, he’s going to silently move to japan and work on a game with kojima or something
tbf that would probably be better than the next book anyhow
it would be better than AFFC or ADWD. Both of those books sucked ass.
Fun fact: there were 15 years between A Game of Thrones and A Dance With Dragons. There were 14 years between A Dance With Dragons and now.
I’ve never read any of the books in Game of Thrones. But I have read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. It’s 7 books written between roughly 1978 and 2004. First four books are great, written between 1978 and 1997. Importantly though, he only wrote those 4 books when he had the inspiration. But the 4th book was more of a flashback that didn’t really advance the story (book 3 was written in 1991, I think). So, much like Martin, fans were constantly asking King to finish the story.
And he did. He wrote books 5-7 right after each other around 2004. And you know what, it’s my opinion and not everyone agrees… but those books suck (5 is ok I guess). Not only that, but the very end of the series was written as an explicit “fuck you” to all his fans who wanted him to finish it (he said in the epilogue about how some people think sex is all about an organism and not everything before).
So he wrote when he didn’t have any inspiration for the story just to please his fans. Maybe Martin’s just lazy, sure. But I suspect he has no idea how to end it and if he tries now thr end product will be garbage.
All things serve the beam.
I feel like the TV series caused many writing dilemmas for him. He has to write the final teo books with GoT seasons 5-8 existing
GRRM allegedly knows the ending. It’s the broad strokes of what we saw on GOT. Martin’s problem isn’t lack of inspiration, as someone who has read too many of his blog posts for insight I’m confident it’s the opposite. He gets a new idea, has to rewrite hundreds of pages to make it work, then throws that out and rewrites again. That’s what happened with the first big break, for books 4 and 5. At least that was his problem a decade ago. Now it’s probably a mix of depressing disappointment at being beaten to the punch by GOT and his status as “important writer” as a distraction.
I’ve accepted long ago we won’t get the books to finish the series and moved on with other fiction. But if GRRM wanted to end the books he could punch them out and do so.
lmao, if it ends the way the show ended, I hope he never writes it
In his defense he literally pauses the story 50 pages before the end and says “this would be a great time to stop reading if you want a happy and satisfying ending… no ok well don’t fucking blame me then”
See the turtle, ain’t he keen?
to be fair SK had a bad near death accident that affected that thing
The winds of winter, whatever happened there.
its was just a dream(of spring)
It died on the vine.
Frankly I’m depressed and ashamed
Who cares about the book, just read the wiki page of the war of the roses
the welsh are gonna rule westeros
Georgie will write 1,000 word blog posts every day for years before he writes the first paragraph of a book that was supposed to come out a decade ago.
Yeah! Almost like they were completely different things or something 🤔
I wish people were on gabe newell over half life 3 the way people are on george rr Martin over writing this book
They were though, HL3 was a huge meme, its just that millennials are old now lol, the people who begged for HL3 are like 35, even 40+ already, like who cares at this point.
“I’m 37!”When Marc Laidlaw published that short treatment of, “this totally isn’t the story of HL3…” that was when hope finally died for me.
I agree with all his takes, though. I enjoyed the Superman movie for what it was and thought Nicholas Hoult was 100% the best Lex Luthor I’ve seen so far. I also loved his Gen Z gamer kid employees trying to kill Superman as if it’s a video game, the same way modern drone pilots do.
Haven’t seen Murderbots yet, but Andor was far away the best sci-fi media so far this year and I don’t expect it to be beat. Hearing his other opinions that match my taste makes me want to see the Murderbot show now.
pls georgeMurderbot, Andor, and Superman are pretty good
I think their is a 30% chance that TWOW comes out while George is alive. ADOS is 100% a ghostwritten book
He’s said he’d never sign it off to be finished by someone else like Wheel of Time
Sure but his estate may think differently when they’re handed comically large bags of cash by publishers a year after he croaks
This happened to one of Martin’s close friends, who was also a writer. They commissioned a Chronicles of Amber prequel series and boy was it terrible. (The original author was Roger Zelazny, in case you were wondering)
Amber.
I didn’t know that, I was thinking of Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude being made into a Netflix show many years after the author’s death
And I didn’t know about that. We both learned something today 😁
I feel like he’s planning to release them in rapid succession which is delaying TWOW but i also think he’ll die before accomplishing this goal
As it stands, half of TWOW is already going to be focused on the stuff that was pushed out of ADWD, (the battle of ice, the battle of fire, cersei’s trial). I feel like George could just release that as a standalone shorter novel to feed me and my fellow hogs.
Ghost written as in written by the ghost of grrm?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I really liked these books in middle school but then waiting so long for the next ones to come out killed the hype cycle for me. I feel fortunate to have lost interest in this series a very long time ago. He could release all the final books in one go today, give it a solid ending, and I wouldn’t care enough to bother reading.
grrm can have a little show watching, as a treat
