GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Arbitrary said:

Back in 2015 I remember Martin talking about having a thousand pages written.

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Sterling said:

There's a not totally unreasonable chance he finishes the next book, but the chance he finishes the series is much closer to zero than 1.

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Goatface said:

still get GoT vids popping up on my youtube homepage, some of them still talk about checking his blog several times a day for updates. anyway, one of them was talking about it appears that most of recent chapters he has talked about seem like old ones being rewritten. don't care enough to check, but it was like 12-20 chapters written but where he is at in the story still hasn't progressed that far in years.

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Punko said:

and most likely everyone would be disappointed by it.

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Chukzombi said:

i know you're almost as big an SK nerd as i am, but back when he was writing It, he gave an interview with Playboy and he was talking about how his new book (It) could run as high as 3000 pages. it might have been too. when the editors get a hold of a manuscript they chop big chunks out of it to prevent it from bloating into a monster slog and keep the story moving. his finished product was over 1000 pages, imagine how much was left on the cutting room floor for it to have been that long after it was edited. with Martin, he might have a shit ton of words on pages, but if its a bunch of farting around, the editors will gouge that shit into something coherent. maybe its only 300-400 pages after edit. the story is nowhere close to being finished. i guess if he wanted to be cute. he could push to have his unedited stuff be pushed out and say, here ya go!

then thats his other problem, he gets super butthurt when people shit on his work. he also might have had to redo a lot of it because fans were pissing on what D&D did and it was close to how he was planning to write the characters. or he didnt like that fans were guessing where all this was leading and so he got mad and started over in a new direction. there could be a bunch of reasons why he isnt close to finishing, now that he's writing junk for HBO for the next five years. that pretty much confirms he's taking a "break". its been ten years, add another 5. he doesnt care.

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Chris said:

If writing too much is his problem, why not just make the series be 20+ books and have a book for every group of characters?

Something more like what Prachett did before Alzheimers caused him to write the same industrial revolution book over and over again?

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Chukzombi said:

its not the problem of too much, its the problem of writing enough to flesh out the story and allow the editors to cut it down to keep it snappy. its exactly like filmmaking. a lot of films shoot tons and tons of extra footage. some movies wrap up shooting with 5 or more hours in a rough cut and its up to the editing department to knock down all that into a movie that is around 90 minutes to 2 hours in length. its just how that is. you always have to write extra. if you just wrote 600 pages. your novel might only be 300 pages or less after editing.

lets take Martin's novels to what was actually shown on the TV show. they burned through 5 novels in just 5 seaons. there was easily 7 or 8 seasons in there. lots of characters were omitted. lots of good characters show watchers never got to see. Martin was salty about that too. he thought he wrote enough to keep ahead of the show, but they either didnt read the books from the viewpoint of someone who actually liked the books and more as a way of leeching all the best dialogue and visuals and leaving a husk behind. the show did Martin such a disservice that even if he had written his entire series to completion by season 5. they still would have burned their way through it and the show still would have ended like something was missing.

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Chris said:

I'm saying it doesn't need to be cut down to be snappy.

He planned ~3 snappy books originally, they were very popular and he got invested in the world building and characters.

Clearly he isn't a snappy trilogy guy, but that is what he is still trying to be.

Like just write a whole book about Daenerys in Slaver's Bay instead of spending over a decade trying to make it plot dense, cover all the characters in multiple locations and be snappy.

Then write your Dorne book with the full Dorne story until they invade Kings Landing.

Eventually you can get back to your A plot with all these side characters flrshed out already, Avengers style.

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Gavinmad said:

Wasnt book 4 like 75% Danaerys anyway? Or book 5? I know one of the two was basically nothing but Dany mooning over Daario and Tyrion floating on a raft.

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