I was thinking the exact same thing. If he dies before he finishes the series there will be a lot of pissed off readers. Surely he has to have the way he wants to end this series written down somewhere (as brief as it may be right now) for that exact reason.
I read somewhere he's told the producers of the show a general direction or outline of how he wants to end it. But as far as another writer taking over if he dies IDK
He said the same thing that he cut a lot out of a feast for crows and it still took him 5 years to write a dance with dragons
Good point, at least he doesnt' have to worry about trying to make sure the time line is right or what to do with Dany
I hope you are right. He had a lot of trouble writing Crows and Dragons and I hope that is mostly due to him not intending to write either book and having bad writers block. There's no reason he can't churn out 6 and 7 like he did Kings and Swords
Thrones - 1996 Kings - 1998 Swords - 2000 Crows - 2005 Dragons - 2011 So hopefully he can get back to what he was doing earlier in his career.
He didn't get lazy, he actually wrote 2 books from the Westeros world they just didn't have anything to do with the Song of Ice and Fire series.
I read The Hedge Knight and am listening to The Sworn Sword on my commute. They take place before A Game of Thrones starts and provide some pretty good history, such as why there are Red Apple Fossaways and Green Apple Fossaways.
Sporcle quiz on characters in AGOT http://www.sporcle.com/games/maxvroom/game-of-thrones-most-mentioned-characters
So I have a question that may have been asked but has always bothered me. In the very first scene of the epilogue the night's watch men go north of the Wall to track the wildlings, then they get ambushed, but one brother makes it out alive. Next thing we know is that he is caught as a deserter south of the Wall and then Ned Stark executes him as a deserter. My question is how did he get from north of the Wall to south the Wall?
I always assumed the same way the wildling raiders/Osha and her crew, and anyone else do, through one of the many weak spots left from the depleted Night's Watch. I never really thought about it though.
courtneyatmsnbc Courtney Hazlett Dinklage backstage: recognizes he thanked the petsitter, not his manager, agent, or mom. "there might be a price I pay."
fucking forgot joffrey and khal drogo. spelled lysa arryn, jory cassel, jeor mormont, and brynden tully wrong. so i got 33/50. forgot a lot of guys from the early books like bronn, septa mordane, grenn, and maester luwin.