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I know asoiaf is not high lit but still, I've always been optimistic about it being almost done
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He said he had 1200 manuscript pages a year ago and that he was 3/4 done.
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He goes back and edits a lot for narrative sake and clarity, a process largely due to his experience as a screenwriter for tv, which is a good thing
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I don't buy it. That cope gets thrown around a ton by the ASOIAF fans on reddit, but the source for that claim was one of their powerusers guessing why Winds was so delayed (and that post was around 2015!). It eventually became a 'fact' only due to so many people citing that as the reason.
Personally, I think he's just a lazy bastard that no longer cares now that he's famous.
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The first 3 were released like 2 years apart from each other and they were absolutely better than the other 2 which just felt like one book that was split and released over 10 years late.
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Worse. It was one book that was stripped of its conclusion and then split into two. In terms of a complete narrative, he hasn't released a full book since Swords.
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I am going to optimistically assume his editor cut over 100 pages and this is draft #2 and he isn't just a fat lazy b-word
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That gives me hope that the book will be good. It's a bad sign when an author become immune from his editors (stephen king)
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You don't need Stephen King as an example. Some ASOIAF fan found manuscript copies of Feast and Dance that were full of notes where Martin overruled his editor. Thats how you ended up with two plodding, go nowhere narratives that were full of lines like 'fat pink mast' and an ode to diarrhea.
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