A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has said he's written 1,100 pages of next book The Winds of Winter, the same amount he'd written as of December 2022, while also revealing there are eight Game of Thrones spin-off shows being worked on.
Who would have thought that stuffing your story full of characters and narratives taking place over a land mass the size of Europe would be hard to end in a feasible way.
It’s easy to end it. Someone finds a new dragon or an old dragon sleeping in a cave being excavated under a castle. The dragon goes on a rampage and kills all the major characters except a few that leave a dozen pages to vanquish the beast.
He’s struggling with expectations and too many other distractions (gaming industry wants his input now).
The problem is that he never had a plan on how to finish up the series, at least not in any reasonable amount of time which was realistic for him to actually write the necessary number of volumes in the series.
Who would have thought that stuffing your story full of characters and narratives taking place over a land mass the size of Europe would be hard to end in a feasible way.
A lot easier to start than to finish, obviously.
It’s easy to end it. Someone finds a new dragon or an old dragon sleeping in a cave being excavated under a castle. The dragon goes on a rampage and kills all the major characters except a few that leave a dozen pages to vanquish the beast.
He’s struggling with expectations and too many other distractions (gaming industry wants his input now).
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The problem is that he never had a plan on how to finish up the series, at least not in any reasonable amount of time which was realistic for him to actually write the necessary number of volumes in the series.
Harry Turtledove did it very well