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I know, I know, for many of you out there, only one of those projects matters.
I am sorry for you. They ALL matter to me.

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The good news is that I seem to have written more than a hundred pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER already.

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This is for those who complain I never blog about my work. (I do, but not often. I prefer to announce when something is finally done, rather just endless reiterations of “I am working on X, I am working on Z,” and I am never going to be one of those “I wrote three pages today” writers. Sorry, that’s not how I roll).

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Dunk & Egg #4, An original novella of Dunk & Egg. Working on it. Hope to have it done by worldcon. It’s scheduled to be published in

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No more monkeys, please. Don’t write to me with any tempting offers or cool new projects. I am practicing saying No.

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Read, enjoy, discuss, and speculate to your heart’s content… but not here, please, there are better places for that, like the forums at Westeros and Tower of the Hand. Me, I have a lot more writing to do. On WINDS, and half a dozen other projects.

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Something Old, Something New..
Hiya kids, hiya hiya hiya.
it was written a long time ago.. I've rewritten it a dozen times..
I will let the text speak for itself

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It would be just like Mercy to sleep through her own rape.

“Mercy,” squeaked the dwarf Bobono, “Mercy, something’s amiss with my laces, my cock keeps flopping out.”

And Bobono’s cock was indeed flopping out. It was made to flop out, for the rape. What a hideous thing, Mercy thought as she knelt before the dwarf to fix him. The cock was a foot long and as thick as her arm, big enough to be seen from the highest balcony. The dyer had done a poor job with the leather, though; the thing was a mottled pink and white, with a bulbous head the color of a plum. Mercy pushed it back into Bobono’s breeches and laced him back up. “Mercy,” he sang as she tied him tight, “Mercy, Mercy, come to my room tonight and make a man of me.”

...But I am formed of darker stuff, of bones and blood and clay, twisted into this rude shape you see before you.” With that, he grabbed at her chest, fumbling for a nipple. “You have no titties. How can I rape a girl with no titties?”

She caught his nose between her thumb and forefinger and twisted. “You’ll have no nose until you get your hands off me.”

“Owwwww,” the dwarf squealed, releasing her.

“I’ll grow titties in a year or two.” Mercy rose, to tower over the little man. “But you’ll never grow another nose. You think of that, before you touch me there.”

Bobono rubbed his tender nose. “There’s no need to get so shy. I’ll be raping you soon enough.”

“Not until the second act.”

“I always give Wendeyne’s titties a nice squeeze when I rape her in The Anguish of the Archon,” the dwarf complained. “She likes it, and the pit does too. You have to please the pit.”


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“Why? If this Izembaro wants to be hospitable, it would be rude to refuse.” He gave her nipple a tweak through the fabric of her dress, just the way the dwarf had done when she was fixing his cock for him. “Mummers are the next best thing to whores.”

“Might be, but this one is a child.”

“I am not,” lied Mercy. “I’m a maiden now.”

“Not for long,” said the comely one. “I’m Lord Rafford, sweetling, and I know just what I want. Hike up those skirts now, and lean back against that wall.”

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He grabbed her wrist. “I’ll do the teaching. Time for your first lesson.” He pulled her hard against him and kissed her on the lips, forcing his tongue into her mouth. It was all wet and slimy, like an eel. Mercy licked it with her own tongue, then broke away from him, breathless. “Not here. Someone might see. My room’s not far, but hurry. I have to be back before the second act, or I’ll miss my rape.”

He grinned. “No fear o’ that, girl.”

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“I know.” She slipped her hand between his legs, and felt how hard he was through the wool of his breeches.

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My faithful minions have just translated the first Alayne chapter from WordStar and uploaded it to my website.

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I finished a new chapter yesterday, another one three days ago, another one the previous week.

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I bought a railroad…

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

If House of the Dragons only does “well” and not gangbusters these other projects will be put on ice very quickly.

nine-gear crow posted:

It's going to be interesting to see if the finale season/episode of GOT just poisoned the ASoIaF brand irrevocably or if people are really that forgiving/forgetful. I have no interest in watching the show at all, but I'm still curious to see how good and/or successful it's going to be.

I have a feeling this is going to be the final outcome though. House of the Dragon does "okay", and that's not good enough for HBO so it gets capped after one season and everything else in the pipeline is immediately shut down and buried in concrete. Franchise dead.

nine-gear crow posted:

It's going to be interesting to see if the finale season/episode of GOT just poisoned the ASoIaF brand irrevocably or if people are really that forgiving/forgetful. I have no interest in watching the show at all, but I'm still curious to see how good and/or successful it's going to be.

I have a feeling this is going to be the final outcome though. House of the Dragon does "okay", and that's not good enough for HBO so it gets capped after one season and everything else in the pipeline is immediately shut down and buried in concrete. Franchise dead.

Evil Fluffy posted:

HBO's hurting enough that "okay" is still going to make it something they need if it's bringing back even some of the millions of people who cancelled as soon as ASOIAF ended and HBO didn't have anything to keep that audience subscribed.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

HBO is hurting? How? Going too all in on the streaming game and not being able to pay enough cash to stay competitive in that arms race?

nine-gear crow posted:

Literally--no joke, I mean literally--half their subscriber base cancelled their HBO subscriptions in the aftermath of Game of Thrones imploding and HBO having basically nothing besides Cherynobyl, which was only a five-episode miniseries, to entice people to stick around with. HBO just loving pissed away subscribers like a guy with poorly controlled diabetes over the course of 2020. 2020! The year in which everyone was locked up inside and had nothing to do but watch TV for 8 hours a day. Game of Thrones's final season hurt them that badly.

Invalid Validation posted:

I don’t know what their numbers are but they have a lot of cool poo poo on there now. It was kinda dire before they added all the DC stuff though.

banned from Starbucks posted:

HBO understands the ebb and flow of subs more than anyone. They've been doing this poo poo a lot longer than most. They're going to be just fine.

bobjr posted:

House of the Dragon relies on a lot of big cinematic battles too right? I wonder how those would look considering we got about 1 a season with GoT

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Something that I noticed and no one seems to talk about is the length of the book. We were left with 20 POV characters and all of them need to start Winds at a point and end the book at another one in order to fulfill their character arcs of the book. Taking the show as a broad base, we can expect Danerys, for example, to start the novel at the Dothraki Sea, be taken to the dosh khaleen and unite all the kahls, return to Meereen and end all the wars and conflicts there and then sail to Westeros, but first stopping at Volantis (as hinted in Dance) and maybe Pentos. The same can be done to most of the other characters, and when we predict how many chapters will be needed to fulfill this amount of story the number goes way beyond 100. A youtuber already did all this math and I will leave the link of his video here if you want to watch it: < https://youtu.be/dDqb6EdP9eI>

His conclusion was that Winds will have approximately 130 chapters and I personally agree with said amount. There is no possible way for George to write less than that and still be able to create a cohesive and not rushed narrative. When translating 130 chapters into words, using the average number of words per chapter of Dance, we get about 751.000 words.

Okay, but why is that important? Fine, George is writing a book almost twice as big as A Storm of Swords, but it shouldn’t take *that* long to finish, right? Well… When we stop to analyze George’s writing pace of the last 20 years, it kind of makes the 11 year delay of Winds not that surprising. Yes, he wrote the first three books very fast, specially Storm, but since 2000 he’s been slower and writing in a different pace than before. A Feast for Crows has 46 chapters, 300.000 words and took 5 years. A Dance With Dragons has 73, 422.000 words and took 6. In total, “A Feast with Dragons” has 119 chapters and 722.000 words that took 11 years in the making, the same amount of time that The Winds of Winter, a book with the same length (if not bigger), has been taking. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise to everyone that he’s taking so long when he literally needed the same amount of time to write the previous two books just as big.

That makes sense to everything George has been telling us since he started the book. He says every year that he has written hundreds of pages but is still nowhere close to finish it. A lot of people say he is lying and fooling us all, that he gave up and is not writing anything anymore but they are just frustrated (with good reason I must say) about the eternal waiting for the book’s release. But I think that is just foolish, George is a respectable author and neither his publishers or the people that work for him would let him do something like it and I honestly find it hard to believe that this theory is somehow more reasonable for some people than the simple idea that the book might be just that big.

George also said his publishers were trying to convince him of dividing Winds like he did with Feast and Dance, but he refused the idea. It would be reasonable to expect something like that from a book so big that will definitely have to be divided in two or more volumes for printing reasons, but I can see why George refused it. In the next book, Winterfell will be taken back from the Boltons. Aegon will conquer King’s Landing and lots of Lannisters and Tyrells will probably die in the process. Euron will advance with his own maleficent plans in the south that might or might not cause the doom of the realm. Dorn will put their plots into action. The Freys will probably meet their fate thanks to Lady Stoneheart. The Starks might all return home (but I personally think that is kind of unlikely considering the weather). The book will end with Deanerys arriving at Dragonstone and there might possibly be an epilogue chapter of the Wall collapsing. A lot is going to happen everywhere and those events will have huge impact in all of the Seven Kingdoms. All the storylines are coming together and dividing it by location would no longer be possible.

“So why not release the first half he’s already finished in chronologic time?” you might ask. Well, he won’t do that because it would ruin the pacing and the storytelling. Imagine if Feast and Dance were published chronologically, the first book would have all the beginnings but no climax whatsoever, the story would simply end at a random point with all the characters still building their story arcs and we would have to wait 6 years to see that conclusion. So, in order for George to be able to release a book with beginning, middle and end, he must wait until everything is done and release it all at once. That’s why I think Winds will be released in two volumes simultaneously.

bobjr posted:

House of the Dragon relies on a lot of big cinematic battles too right? I wonder how those would look considering we got about 1 a season with GoT

nine-gear crow posted:

Fair point. However, I do very much recall the big giant “PLEASE DON’T CANCEL YOUR HBO SUBSCRIPTION BECAUSE OF THIS GOD WE’RE SORRY WE’RE SO SORRY” ad they aired immediately before the final episode of Game of Thrones started, which I actually burst out laughing at. So even they’re prone to just naked panic reactions from time to time.

bobjr posted:

House of the Dragon relies on a lot of big cinematic battles too right? I wonder how those would look considering we got about 1 a season with GoT

Pennsylvanian posted:

They need likeable characters and engaging drama

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

banned from Starbucks posted:

Lmao is that online to watch anywhere?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

HBO is hurting? How? Going too all in on the streaming game and not being able to pay enough cash to stay competitive in that arms race?

Hasselblad posted:

I truly wish I could get all my favorite shows on one platform. We've Netflix and Amazon prime, but drat I wish I could get Yellowstone and Outlander on them. gently caress subbing to a channel for one series though. Much less a hot mess like GoT.

TK-42-1 posted:

My dude have you heard of Plex and ?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

But I think that is just foolish, George is a respectable author and neither his publishers or the people that work for him would let him do something like it and I honestly find it hard to believe that this theory is somehow more reasonable for some people than the simple idea

Coquito Ergo Sum posted:

releasing two doorstops about people walking around feeling sad.

Mat Cauthon posted:

They are still in need of a big tent pole show, especially after Westworld poo poo the bed. If the dragon house show doesn't take off things might get rocky real fast.