I was wondering why he just doesn’t cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as “Part 1” and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn’t write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view “chapter” and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there’s a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn’t mean a cohesive narrative.
So here’s my story… Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn’t care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like “Well, clearly I missed something…” Backtracked and read that chapter and went “Well… glad I wasn’t invested in THAT character!”
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don’t know that that’s how he specifically did it, but he’s describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
I was wondering why he just doesn’t cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as “Part 1” and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn’t write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view “chapter” and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there’s a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn’t mean a cohesive narrative.
So here’s my story… Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn’t care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like “Well, clearly I missed something…” Backtracked and read that chapter and went “Well… glad I wasn’t invested in THAT character!”
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don’t know that that’s how he specifically did it, but he’s describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
It wouldn’t be publishable without it.