He updated!

[Lidora]

wow! he finally updated again. i check the site everyday, but i wasn't actually expecting an update. awesome.


he's got 1300 pages thus far, and a few hundred more roughs. that's crazy, quite a long novel. at least for all this waiting we'll have a big, fat story to read. oh man, i can't wait. but i will, for much longer i'm sure, for even when he has it done, there is all that publishing crap to deal with. man oh man, i'm going to start rereading the first three soon.

i'm all fidgity!

 

[LadyFel]

I gave up on rereading them because I've read them so often I know exactly which bits are boring or annoying and skip them...

C'mon, c'mon...getting closer at least...

 

[Lacedaemonian]

A small update but still a glimmer of light at the end of the mammoth tunnel.

 

[erickad71]

Seeing the title of this thread I got all excited!!!

...but we still have months(at least) to go...

 

[jnr_turtle]

he's got 1300 pages thus far, and a few hundred more roughs. that's crazy, quite a long novel. at least for all this waiting we'll have a big, fat story to read.

Definitely. It looks like it'll be around 1600 manuscript pages when he's done which will be even bigger than Storm of Swords! Mmm... Fat GRRM book. =)

It'll probably be done around the end of this year.

I said that I hoped to have the book done by the end of the year. Famous last words. No, it's not done, though I am getting closer. I have more than thirteen hundred pages in final draft form and another hundred or so in roughs or fragments, but there are still some chapters yet to write. I'm telling myself that I'm on the home stretch. As soon as FEAST as done, I will announce it here.

 

[Shoegaze99]

he's got 1300 pages thus far, and a few hundred more roughs. that's crazy, quite a long novel. at least for all this waiting we'll have a big, fat story to read.

That's good news indeed ...

... as long as he does not lose his focus and let his story get out of control, ala Robert Jordan.

Thankfully, the first three installments of Martin's series have been tightly plotted enough that I don't think there is a real danger of that happening. Even the subplots that have just sort of hung out there, hinting at looming danger, have continued to move forward rather than stagnate. Thus far Martin seems to have a good handle on what he wants to do with his story.

I hopes he sticks to his guns with regard to the length of the series and does not cave in to financial pressure to keep ... it ... going ... and ... going ...

 

[hodor]

Oh man don't say such things. I could never think of Marting in a Jordan/Goodkind category... Just a bad thought...

 

[Fitz]

Definitely. It looks like it'll be around 1600 manuscript pages when he's done which will be even bigger than Storm of Swords! Mmm... Fat GRRM book. =)

It'll probably be done around the end of this year.

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Wow! that's going to be one fat book! Looking forward to reading it!!
But NOOO, not the end of the year!! I hope that's after November...

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I am guessing the end of July. We should all have a guess and pass the time away.

 

[hodor]

end of july sounds good... 2006

 

[jnr_turtle]

Well I think he'll finish *writing* around July/August. When it gets to the shops is another matter.... perhaps around November/December?

 

[Rane Longfox]

1300 pages... so thats, what, a page a day since he started writing? TOO SLOW

 

[shaggydog]

You should consider yourself lucky, the poor Spanish readers are still waiting for a Storm of Swords!!
(i couldnt wait, i read it in English and i missed a lot of things!!
(bran's theory: he will become the whiole warg thing, skinchanger, etc...but the brilliant thing is that he will be in the skin of a dragon in some fight at the Wall, burning others and... flying...

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I have never considered Bran controlling a dragon. Food for thought.

 

[n8smitty]

I have never considered Bran controlling a dragon. Food for thought.

Duh? How could you not see that? You are eggs!

Martin won't touch that until the end of book 4, but it's clear that the dragon that lives under winterfell will become Bran's pet replacement.

 

[Lord of Winterfell]

Umm... I've read the series 4 times and have never read about a dragon beneath Winterfell. Please enlighten me.

 

[n8smitty]

Umm... I've read the series 4 times and have never read about a dragon beneath Winterfell. Please enlighten me.

I actually read a theory online at one of the GRRM weblinks. Great theory. How else could Winterfell be so warm so far North? The heat from the Dragon fuels the springs that heat the castle. There were several quotes from the book to back the theory, but I can't place them right now.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I read the series page to page at a frantic rate, and so excuse myself for missing what you call the 'obvious'. I would not presume so much. The dragon under Winterfell seems like a crap idea, I do not believe George would do that. But who knows other than George?

Also go easy on the racial comments - funny but utterly offensive.

 

[n8smitty]

I read the series page to page at a frantic rate, and so excuse myself for missing what you call the 'obvious'. I would not presume so much. The dragon under Winterfell sems like a crap idea, I do not believe George would do that. But who knows other than George?

Also go easy on the racial comments - funny but utterly offensive.

I suppose you should step into my culture then, where racial slurs don't often offend so much as bullets from a smoking gun. "Nigga" just means "dude" or "bloke." No offense meant at all.

As for the dragon, he's there, and if you don't like the idea, then don't buy book 4.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I will be buying book four - and there is nothing concrete about the dragon. Geysers and hot springs occur in many cold climates such as Iceland. If he writes your dragon theory in then I am sure he will do it in an excellent way. I always assumed that Bran would fly using his mind - make his spirit soar and all that.

Your smoking guns patter stinks but is funny non the less. I know that you were not being racist but still try not to use said language.