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> Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan. Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. > At the start of February, Martin told his followers t
by spiralx 5y ago
> Let's see if Martin pulls a Jordan.
Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely.
> At the start of February, Martin told his followers that lockdown had enabled him to make headway on the eagerly anticipated Song of Ice and Fire Book Six. He said: "I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020. The best year I’ve had on WOW since I began it." However, he added some less encouraging news.
> Martin added on his blog (called 'notablog'): "I need to keep rolling, though. I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion."
This sounds almost like "I only really started working on book six in 2020 because the lockdown meant I couldn't gad about the world doing conferences." given that he only writes while on his Wordstar PC that's at his home.
- CRConrad 5y ago> Dying before finishing the final book? That seems pretty likely. BookS, in Jordan's case. Sanderson wrote at least two, I think maybe three. Is Winds of Winter supposed to be the last or second to last book of aSoIaF; I thought there was supposed to be something like two more after that?
- spiralx 5y agoJordan had said there was only to be one more book at the point he became ill, somewhere along the line that turned into three books, presumably the notes and scenes he left to whomever was to finish the series was a bit more extensive than his original estimate. WoW is the penultimate book in the series apparently. Book 7 will be titled "A Dream of Spring" if it ever arrives...