Does he even have a real ending for the books? It doesn't take a fucking decade to write a book if you actually know what you're going to write. I think he wrote himself into a corner is hoping he can just die and leave at as some big open story. Like that will make him more prestigious than Tolkien.
He must've fucked up something for his original ending and doesn't know what to do now lol
He doesn't have an ending for the books
Matthew Parker
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Lucas Robinson
True
Alexander Morales
He's a naturally slow writer who uses some archaic word proc software to do it, and I believe D & D's butchery killed his creative drive for the series. He still works in the world but it doesn't look like he wants to touch the ASOIAF storyline anymore.
Can't really say I blame him too much, creative drive is a real touchy bitch & there's nothing you can really do to force it back once it's gone.
Jaxson Sanders
>there's nothing you can really do to force it back once it's gone
I mean you can plow away at it just to get it out like King would do, but you'll get the same quality level at best.
Jace Kelly
he was actually hoping to crib off the show's ending but that plan obviously went up in smoke
Andrew Nguyen
It's the journey that matters, not the destination.
Christian Cook
He has an ending in mind, he just writes so much useless detail (like food description or shitting in a field) that it takes him forever, also he watches too much football. I imagine the ending will be the same, (depending on backlash), but it'll be massively different in how it gets there and take him 9 years.
Asher Lewis
not only this, but he actually writes EACH CHAPTER from MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES. who the fuck does that
Kevin Butler
To be Fair the world is too anoying right now. A real writer Will Go where the story leads.
But now the woman can't do anything dumb. He can't kill character X. The white Male cant get too much power
It must be hell trying to write and constantly think of the implications
Angel Turner
>take him 9 years
He's been stuck with book 6 of 7 for over a decade, and apparently added two fucking more; not a chance in hell he finishes it in his lifetime even at his "quickest" work pace. And he knows it damn well too.
That's a stylistic thing & Tolkien did that too.
Logan Russell
he has the ending, he just doesn't know how to get there
>jon kills dany to ignite lightbringer and kill the NK
>jon refuses the crown and leaves to the north to live with the wildings and val
Isaiah Ward
>mfw Brandon Sanderson takes over when GRRM dies
Hunter Murphy
Every writer should have this philosophy. A Universe like this you have to know the ending and the reason for things before you fill in the middle at least a general Idea. You're in a creative space that will go to the wayside if you wait. The other route is a smaller controlled story in which you allow the readers imagination to run wild like Alien. These expansive crazy ass sci-fi/fantasy directions will only work those 2 ways. I swear I can always tell when a sci-fi/fantasy writer started a universe but didn't know the ending when I get halfway through the first or second book.
Charles Ortiz
yes he has them written.
their is no winner, only a ruler.
Angel Scott
>He's been stuck with book 6 of 7 for over a decade, and apparently added two fucking more; not a chance in hell he finishes it in his lifetime even at his "quickest" work pace. And he knows it damn well too.
Well close to it, he has 11 chapters done, and ADOD only had 10, so I imagine he's actually done with it, he'll probably announce it for a Winter release after GoT ends. But yeah, he'll either die before he finishes ADOS or it'll be rushed to some extent.
It honestly, and even in the books makes more thematic sense for it to be Jaime or Jorah who wields Lightbringer.
Eli Howard
That's what this fat fucker will say as he's dying from heart failure when everybody's asking him about the fucking ending.
Elijah Nguyen
I kek so hard at the Dark Tower variation of this, where the author gets wasted & loses his epic outline for the whole series but the actual last LAST thing & has to "Navel of Gan" bullshit his way through a couple thousand pages as a tired old man whose best creative days are WELL behind him.
Matthew Allen
He wrote each of the first three books in two years. He's clearly capable of turning out an epic-length book in a reasonable amount of time when he knows what he wants to write and spends all his time working on it.
Elijah Lopez
>makes more thematic sense for it to be Jaime or Jorah
Jamie slaying Cersei to ignite Lightbringer would be pottery.
Isaac Garcia
>Queenslayer
Luis Clark
>Nightslayer
>Winterslayer
>Wightslayer
Based Jaime.
Samuel Phillips
The 90s were like, 30 years ago bro.
Brayden Johnson
Yup, about 10 years ago it pissed me off everytime I'd read something, or play something and excited to see where it went and then you could tell that they didn't even know. Lol, you're kind of like
>"why the fuck did you write this in the first place asshole"
Juan Hall
How did he let himself get cucked by a tv show? Why let them ruin his material? Surely he couldve told them to put the show on hold until it was finished
Tyler Wilson
youtube.com
I know that it's a video game, but they literally alluded to a "true" alien race and the ones you fight are the hybrids, and a bunch of other shady shit. The ending here makes you think you're going to see all of this in the next story, and they literally drop all of it the next game like this didn't happen. I was sooooo pissed at the time.
Dominic Brooks
this but unirionically. the ending isn't going to change my enjoyment for the good seasons.
Bentley Watson
I’m betting on him telling lies to D and D and waiting for the show to be ver to release the truth
Brandon Morgan
Inb4 thread full of redditors trying to get anons to believe their conspiracy theory that he's totally finished the books already and will release them any day now.
Ayden Myers
He wouldn't even have to do that, they don't give a fuck regardless & make up their own bullshit to cover the gaps of everything they didn't like or thought was problematic & deleted anyway.
Lucas Walker
>he has 11 chapters done
>believing this
Thomas Long
His actual reasoning and has been for years is
"I thought it would go on for another five seasons and that I would have actually finished the books by then as well, but they caught up too fast and cut too much."
Charles Moore
he says that he does have the ending sort of planned. he wants it to be like LOTR, where it's ultimately a success but the world isn't perfect. like aragorn becomes king and sauron is stopped, but shit like the scouring of the shire still happens. so him saying that leads me to believe he has some modicum of an idea of what he wants.
i don't think we'll ever get to it though unless he seriously puts his foot down and starts back up on the books. i believe eventually we will get the winds of winter, but i'm not sure if we'll ever see a dream of spring.
Michael Scott
Yeah there was a point where people thought the books were gonna be done and the showrunners were fucking up by leaving out critical foreshadowing
Elijah Mitchell
It could have easily gone 5 more if they'd not cut out a bunch of characters & near 50% of the plot.
Tyler Morgan
surely he can't abandon the fans like this knowing the snakes that are d&d
Jordan Phillips
If I'm right about it, it might improve after the show is done, but still, tick tock.
Landon Watson
I liked warbreaker, Sanderson is more shallow/juvenile in his writting but he can deliver 80% quality in 10% time
Levi Bennett
He has already abandoned them. He's just focusing on eating and shitting before he finally croaks.
Angel Sullivan
There is no NK in the books
Jackson Long
he's a fat retarded who hit the lottery with some mediocre books
what do you think?
Luis Young
>warbreaker
>everyone starts going super saiyan at the end
>lmao just summon some old soldiers we have laying around made of rock and have them fight off-screen. Quick, end the book!
It was so goddamn underwhelming.
Mason Hill
I don't think the problem is the ending but the loose ends.
Most fantasy and sci-fi from the 60-80 were a one book history that would be successful and then author would extended it with other books from scratch.
Books from this time had a complete lore that wouldn't go much beyond the current book, things would be explained but not detailed, so authors would build more over the afore mentioned lore, most of the series's lore would come from sequels.
But, in the 90's authors started focusing more on building series by intentionally hiding part of the lore and teasing fans by building conspiracies and mysteries, even cliffhangers.
GRRM is that kind of author, and this is he dug his grave. He took the idea of sprinkling mystery to build hype and took it on steroid, so now he has so many loose ends on his lore to tie that he's basically locked on finishing them before the actual narrative.
He could say fuck it and deliver the real history letting anything else be forgotten but he's one of those guys that has a really fragile ego, so likely his is afraid of readers bombarding him with questions about Coldhands, prophecies and shit.
Jonathan Cox
>he has 11 chapters done
11 chapters released. A lot more are done.
William Adams
>Master, the fat man has resumed writing. He's going to finish the book.
>"He cannot be allowed to finish. The HBO ending will be the only ending. Kill him, then burn the manuscripts."
Mason Ortiz
I don't know why showfags keep chiming in with their dumbass opinions, when they clearly have no clue what they're talking about and consistently out themselves as being posing morons. They always reference something that's show specific, or say retarded shit like this . It's embarrassing.
Jackson Carter
>unirionically
>seasons
what a fucking pleb, go fuck yourself
Gavin Morgan
lol that's just denial
Brayden Diaz
Well at least he knows what NOT to do.
Logan Morgan
...most of which...deserved to be cut?
Thomas Williams
That was in the 90s when he was in his fifties.