[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”10083″ img_size=”736×484″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]When HBO started out their adaptation of Game of Thrones, they had five George R.R. Martin novels to help pave the way. With the authors contributions, they used many of his storylines as the seasons went on until they had pretty much exhausted the pieces of the novels that they chose to use. At that point, show creators and writers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff were left to their own devices after season four, as they started inputting some of their own story arcs outside the novels. This was especially true since Martin’s next Game of Thrones novel, Winds of Winter was not completed yet. In fact, it STILL isn’t complete.
Martin has admitted that he has struggled to complete his long-awaited novel. He revealed this recently in an interview with The Guardian:
I’ve been struggling with it for a few years. The Winds of Winter is not so much a novel as a dozen novels, each with a different protagonist, each having a different cast of supporting players and antagonists and allies and lovers around them, and all of these weaving together in an extremely complex fashion. So it’s very, very challenging. Fire and Blood by contrast was very simple. Not that it’s easy, it still took me years to put together, but it is easier.
Part of the problem might be that the author has been extremely busy between HBO’s final season for Game of Thrones, as well as the upcoming prequel now undergoing casting. The other issue is that as Martin’s novels have advanced, they have been growing larger and larger as far as page counts go. The original Game of Thrones novel weighed in at 700 pages. His last completed novel in the Song of Fire and Ice saga, A Dance with Dragons was over 1000 pages. If what Martin says is true, this latest tome might come in at well over 1000 pages. That is of course, when and if he actually finishes it.
With the completion of HBO’s Game of Thrones on the horizon, as well as the work on the prequel under way, is the completion of The Winds of Winter as important as it once might have been? Share your literary opinions with us at GVNation. (Just try to do it before Martin actually completes his work…you can do it.)
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