aweseeds said: @hellsbellschime that’s a good point that grrm might have assumed there would be more seasons before the show caught up with his writing necause he didn’t realize d&d eould cut out so much, like lady stoneheart, sansa’s vale plot, & the north rememberes. i still wonder why grrm put a ticking clock on himself, only to not push on with asoiaf. why did he take the time to write fire & blood when he saw the show was moving at a faster pace than he anticipated?
aweseeds said: i completely understand his wanting to flesh out the world with more history, but why risk it in before finishing the actual series. we’ll never know.
Yeah I think that is very fair actually, like if D&D had actually fully adapted everything then while GRRM would clearly still be behind, there would have been a lot more material for TWOW and ADOS for them to work with. But I also think that you can’t force yourself to write and I think that while everyone weirdly assumes that GRRM has writers block with ASOIAF, I think that he is likely having trouble because he has so much shit that he wants to write for it and keeping timelines and continuity straight for it is just way more work than writing F&B was.
