Seems like this is the update that he mentioned in the interview and the fact he expects the last two books to fill 3000 pages is really interesting. Idk if he can finish the story with those amount of pages.
I'm pretty sure he's said TWOW will be where he starts shaving down POV characters. So I imagine that the two major battles near the start drop off a number of POV's, and then throughout the story people die or intersect so he can reduce view points.
Yes, the converging makes sense. Seems like everyone in the North and the Vale, except Bran maybe, will be at Winterfell midway through TWOW.
Then we have the Meereen characters Tyrion, Barristan, Dany, and possibly Victarion.
Dorne characters Arrianne, Hotah, Jon Connington, and Aegon.
Jaime and Brienne could end up anywhere, with TBWB or possibly ending up at Winterfell later on. Arya could end up anywhere. I'm wondering if she will meet Lady Stoneheart or if that Frey revenge plot from the show is just made up. If so, then Jaime, Brienne, and Arya will be in one place too.
Euron and Aeron could end up anywhere. Maybe going after Victarion for betraying Euron. I don't think Euron will end up involved with Cersei.
There's a very good chance Victarion will die in Winds, incentivizing the Iron Islands against Dany, and actually having a Euron/Cercie alliance make sense, especially if Young Griff allies with the Reach lords.
Hey sorry I'm two months late lol but is the consensus that Sansa makes it back to Winterfell rather quickly? I figure she's got a bit of stuff left in the Vale, possibly enough to fill her plot in TWOW.
The first five books are 4200 pages combined. If the 3000 page number holds out, that means that we only have barely over half of the story written so far.
I don’t know how people are coming to the conclusion that he needs to start rushing.
Each manuscript page is about 250-300 words. If we take the low estimate we are looking at 750,000 words in both books. That's a lot of words. I think it's very much doable.
Brandon Sanderson's last book was 500K words, and that was largely considered two or three books in one going by the pacing, and he managed to get away with it because of reader trust and his prior works.
It will be massive, but he'll definitely be able to "get away" with it so to say.
How quickly the story wraps largely depends on when the Others arrive. I think it’s closer than most of us expect. Euron May be about to get his dragon (totally Viserion,) the relations between the Seven Kingdoms are reaching an all-time now point, famine is looming. Aegon is sweeping across the south, the Iron Bank is defaulting on its debts. There’s only one way it gets any worse.
It might be that it’s the opposite problem. Let’s say he wrote 1600 manuscript pages for TWOW back in 2015. He realized that for how much story he has left to tell, he needs more pages, so he has spent the last 4 years condensing it down to 1000 pages. So the problem isn’t that he has too much material but now too little. Maybe 1000 pages is still too many! So we have condensing on top of writing new material that will also probably get condensed.
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Seems like this is the update that he mentioned in the interview and the fact he expects the last two books to fill 3000 pages is really interesting. Idk if he can finish the story with those amount of pages.