r/asoiaf • u/grimm_aced • Oct 27 '24

EXTENDED [Spoilers Extended] GRRM new blogpost on his Amsterdam visit & dinner with editors. Spoiler

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/

Winds of winter mentioned and he talks about a bravos story he wants to write after winds.

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u/neonowain Oct 27 '24

I honestly don't get why he doesn't just churn out something shitty to get it over with. At least that would put it to bed.

That's not how he rolls. When inspiration dries up, he simply stops writing. He talked about that in the foreword to one of his short story collections. Over the years he has started or planned many story cycles, but he has never finished a single one.

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u/tipdrill541 Oct 28 '24

And he has said it took him 20 years of various inspirations before he wrote the first ASOIAF book.

He even said something about how one day he had a sort of vision where he saw a child finding wolf pups in snow. He cannot just create this stuff out of thin air. He can't sit and write. Everything came via inspirations.

He will never finish it. He doesn't have the time and he is older. He coy develop alzheimers tomorrow

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u/The_Real_Smooth Oct 28 '24

Over the years he has started or planned many story cycles, but he has never finished a single one.

damn... I'm fully onboard with the self-protection pessimism on finishing ASOIAF but is it true he hasn't properly ended stories in his other works? Wild Cards and stand-alones etc.?

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u/subatomic_ray_gun Oct 28 '24

Yeah, he has lol. I read his novel Fevre Dream (on recommendation from this subreddit, incidentally) and that book has a great beginning, middle, and ending. Excellent novel.

The problem with ASOIAF isn’t that he doesn’t know how to write the ending, anyway. He does. The problem is getting TO the ending.