![]() Martin wrote Fire & Blood in part because he and his publisher “wanted a book to go along” with new Game of Thrones spinoff show ![]() ![]() ![]() That book went on to form the basis of House of the Dragon, HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel show about the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. For instance, in 2018, while we were waiting for The Winds of Winter, he published Fire & Blood, a history of the Targaryen dynasty. So I kind of ripped them apart and rewrote them,” he said during the same discussion.īut he can also get sidetracked by other commitments. I was rereading some chapters that I’d written earlier, and I didn’t like them well enough. “I was working on it the day before I flew back here for three or four days. Why does Martin write so slowly? Part of it is that he’s a perfectionist who has no compunction about rewriting earlier stuff if it doesn’t live up to his expectations. During a discussion with writer David Anthony Durham last October, he said that he was “about 3/4 of the way done,” and that he expected it to be the longest book in the series yet. He’s been writing this thing for 12 years and counting at this point, and still has a ways to go. For proof, just look at The Winds of Winter, the long-in-coming sixth volume of his Song of Ice and Fire series. ![]()
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