by Ryan Dinsdale. Posted Nov. 20, 2023, 7:04 p.m. 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
In the mid 1980s George R.R. Martin was still a decade away from writing A Game of Thrones, the first novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series that spawned the hit HBO series, but he was already a
Winds of Winter: George R. R. Martin Wrote Hundreds of Pages in 2020, But Still Has Plenty More to Go 2020 was the "best year" Martin had on Winds of Winter since he began writing.
About 4 years ago Hunter's Run came out. It was written by him, Daniel Abraham and Gardner Dozois. It reminded me of Orson Scott Card's writing back in the early 80's - really bizarre but very compelling at the same time.
So yeah, I know. George RR Martin's so slow at writing, yeah, ha ha. Now consider this. I'll be comparing to Harry Potter, a series that has seen little to no complaints on writing speed. The last six books of Harry Potter (because we don't know how long it took the first book to be written) were completed in (almost exactly) ten years.
During the Long Wait, I've been reading a lot of other fantasy writers like Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie and Patrick Rothfuss. I've noticed that while the worlds in their novels are similar to Westeros, they have large stylistic differences. For example, the worlds Sanderson creates are just as brutal as ASoIaF but the main
The crowd waiting in line to hear George RR Martin chat about The World of Ice and Fire (both a book and his fictional universe) looked about what you’d expect. The people here look a little
4.0 was the second WordStar version to work on DOS, but was a rewrite of 3.0, which had been directly ported to DOS from CP/M. Martin says that to this day it fulfills his every writing need. I
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