Has george written himself into a narrative corner with ADWD?

has george written himself into a narrative corner with ADWD?

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No, he's just mud-wrestling the corpse of JRRRR Tolkien over tax policy and logistics.

I'm enjoying ADWD on my re-read but you can tell he was struggling with it while writing and with the fallout in Winds. I'm curious how he's going to wrap up the stuff with Tyrion, Victarion, Daenerys, etc.

victarion dies quickly into winds, daenerys conquers essos really fast after she makes an example of yunkai with drogon, tyrion meets daenrys and becomes an advisor after some discussion

He’s going to die before he completes it, isn’t he?

Everyone is.

its coming out in 2020

Sure it will, sure it will.

he adds way too many character pov's

Wake me up when the 7th novel comes out in 2045.

The man is 70 and in reasonable health by all appearances. Yes, I know he's fat but when you get really old that starts to be good because it means you're not wasting away.

He's probably got a good 10 years left before he'd too infirm to write anything. If Winds comes out in the next year or two (which is speculated to be pretty likely if you've been following the news) then there's a good chance he gets the whole thing done. Maybe a few dunk and eggs too.

Its chancy because the writing is only going to get harder as he gets older.

What? No, he wrote himself into the story as Sam.

Well, Toni Morrison died at 88, so I guess there’s a chance he’ll live near that. That’s assuming he doesn’t get cancer or dies suddenly of a stroke, of course.

>LOTR BUT EVEN MORE WORDY AN DESCRIPTIVE
why do pseuds pretend to like this schlock?

Victarion's entire storyline is going to feel pointless if he is just a bridge to bring Euron over but I think Euron and his kraken that he will eventually summon is what will be what temporarily unites all the factions together and a meeting takes place on Dragonstone afterwards.

now that the show is over he's an irrelevant nobody, they will stop inviting him to the orgies so maybe if he's bored he'll write something

Dude still have spin off and shit to do, sorry got to milks those dumb people.

He hasn’t really written himself into a corner, more like written himself into the middle of an ocean

Only read first book then watched series.
What are the major differences between the series and books? Or is the metaplot basically the same?

The show stays pretty close to the book plot for 4 seasons, then after that it diverges dramatically. Unfortunately the show abandoned grrm’s overall narrative themes and tone at that point as well.

Metaplot is essentially the same for the first three books, but books four and five go in an entirely different direction

I heard you can read books 1-3 or 1-4 (I forgot) and stop as if it were a completed trilogy. Is this true?

I'm starting to think Jon really isn't dead and he used Mel's glamour to save himself from being stabbed. The question is who took the knife for Jon while posing as him. Satin? Edd?

yeah that’s more or less true that 1-3 can serve as a completed trilogy for most character storylines. 4&5 serve to expand the story overall and is worth a read imo, but you do wonder how exactly the author is going to tie it all back together.

Also on my re-read I noticed Edd dreamed of being the Lord Commander and called it a nightmare. Maybe foreshadowing for switching places with Jon and using the necklace?

I really hope not...there are already too many fake out deaths and if the single most consequential moment of adwd turns out to be a glamor trick it’ll come off as very cheap.

It would feel cheap but it wouldn't be terrible as some faux Jesus parallel resurrection.

Pretty much the exact opposite. He's made a bunch of sprawling threads that need to now be tied together in a reasonable manner.

He really probably should have just gone ahead with his initial idea of having a timeskip, so he'd never had the chance to spin the wheels long enough for some characters and their stories to spin out of control in order to give others the chance to catch up.

I might only be a tasteless pleb but I like the idea of jons resurrection. Characters dying and later brought back as shells of their former selves is much more satisfying than glamor fake-outs. Dying and coming back as virtually the same person (or a Jesus tier savior) would be the worst option available tho.