/lit/ - Literature

Are you following his fan fiction?

If no, why not?

He is currently working on WINDS OF WINTER as we speak.

>>23118379
Why can't he just write winds, what the fuck is wrong with him

>>22965311
never meet your heroes

Preston's fanfiction will be canonized.

Preston's fanfiction will be made official canon upon GRRM's death.

It is almost here, in the form of Preston's fanfiction, officially canonised by GRRM's estate, upon the fat man's imminent death.

>>21962496
Busy with finer things in life.

>>18742446
>>18743505
Leave the old man be, Preston will finish it.

>>12801886
Frankly when I heard his theories for the first time I was impressed, both for intricacy and for his usage of Martin's older works. But then I realized that Martin would never make story that intricate...

>>11819691
>>11819702
I think he just gave up.

Preston should finish the series

>>10050572
easy on the salad dressing

>>9826095
>Did Martin achieve his objective when writing A song of Ice and Fire?
It's hard to say when he hasn't finished ASOIAF.

Looking at his previous works, GRRM has a Shyamalan-level love for plot twists, so the world turning out to be sci-fi, or the Others ending up not evil all along (after all, they haven't even done anything in the books, yet), or the Children trying to fool humans into killing each other would certainly be interesting. It's kinda sad how many people celebrate the series as "realistic fantasy", when the books are about how such "fantasy" should be repugnant to a human being. Of course, not many people notice that when Martin himself continues to focus on the stories of schemers, plotters and warriors, on the importance of their quests, while the characters that could offer a perspective contrary to the war one remain unnoticed by the readers.

The closest Martin has come to achieving his objectives is, IMHO, the Brienne POV of "A Feast For Crows", and that book is probably the most hated of the series. Considering how Martin keeps sliding off to write more stories about Targaryen history instead of finishing TWOW, it's quite possible that he caught onto the fact that people may just plain not like where he taking the story (away from the War of Five Kings and towards its bloody aftermath, "phasing out" the importance of Stark vs Lannister conflict that has been going on for the first three books) and just concentrates on Tolkienesque world-building, which he likes. Had the ASOIAF fans read Martin's other literature, half of them would probably stop being his fans, because looking at how he ends most of his books, ASOIAF's ending (if it ever comes) will be anticlimactic, confusing and challenging the morals of an average reader at their very core.

>>9311501
Well, there's nowhere else to go except plebbit.