New GRRM Update on ADWD

Here is the latest update. Disappointing.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: I took a good hard swack at the Meereenese knot. The sword bounced off and cut my nose off. Bugger.
 
the smiling weirwood said:
The werewolf story was called "The Skin Trade" and it was very, very good. I loved that one.
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TK-421 said:
Here is the latest update. Disappointing.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: I took a good hard swack at the Meereenese knot. The sword bounced off and cut my nose off. Bugger.
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From the same message:
MOVIE NEWS: My werewolf novella "The Skin Trade," originally published way back when in NIGHT VISIONS 5, has been optioned for film by Mike the Pike Productions. You can read some of the details here: Mike The Pike Productions, Inc. Acquires Literary Option With (Very Sharp) Teeth And about time.
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FUNNY BOOK NEWS: And whattaya know, "The Skin Trade" will also be a comic book miniseries and graphic novel. Avatar Press will publish the book. Daniel Abraham did the adaptation and script. The pencils will be done by talented Polish artist Marek Oleksicki.
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And also from that message, news about another story, Bitterblooms, found in Dreamsongs:
MORE MOVIE NEWS: Three of my short stories have also been optioned for film of late. The stories are the fantasies "In the Lost Lands" and "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" and the science fiction story "Bitterblooms." Film rights have been optioned by producer / director Constantin Werner, who has a website at http://www.constantinwerner.com
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GRRM made A Smidge Of Progress on ADWD yesterday.

I decided to take a break from tearing and fumbling at the Meereenese knot, and completed a chapter about another character today. A character who is very far from Meereen.

Finishing the chapter felt good. Especially since it also completed that character's arc for the book. Admittedly, she has only two chapters in DANCE, so I am not sending up any flares. But hey, I'm done with one of them for the present, that's something.

Only thirty-eight more POVs to wrap up...
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If nothing else, GRRM's problems with The Knot is whetting my appetite about what we may be finding out about the events on Essos. It sounds very intriguing (perhaps literally so).
 
I suspect he is sounding further from the end on purpose - so people don't keep bothering him so much if they know he's almost done.

As to the character that would only have two chapters, that would likely be either Arya or Asha, in my humble opinion.

The Meereenese knot is Dany mayhaps?
 
So who will play Alexander to this Gordi.... err, Mereenese Knot? George? His editor? Or his computer crashing?
 
I think there's going to be three different POVs in Mereen, Dany, Quentyn, and Tyrion. I imagine that the knot is figuring out what's best told from which POV. It's going to be the first time that we've seen Dany from anyone else's perspective. Boaz pointed out in some other thread that pretty much nobody has emerged unscathed, heroic, and noble from their own POV, it'll be interesting to see how the opposite holds true. How someone we've only seen from their own POV (in fact, none of our other main characters seem to even be aware of her existence), appears to other folks.
 
TK-421 said:
I suspect he is sounding further from the end on purpose - so people don't keep bothering him so much if they know he's almost done.

As to the character that would only have two chapters, that would likely be either Arya or Asha, in my humble opinion.

The Meereenese knot is Dany mayhaps?
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IS he nearly done though?

I agree that D, Q and T are the likely Meereenese Knot suspects, though I doubt the knot itself a matter of perspective, but probably some story-telling corner he's written himself into, probably to do with making the chronoligcal order of things make sense.
 
I've been (as have all) more than patient about this, but IMHO this has evolved into a pissing match in which GRRM is literally drowning.
 
If I may liken writing a book to driving a car, the driver will arrive when he arrives... and not a minute sooner. The driver may disobey the posted speed limits and drive like a bat out of hell to arrive sooner, but only at the risk of getting in trouble with the law, injuring himself, or injuring others. By speeding the driver may arrive early, but at what emotional cost? Speeders are usually upset and uptight upon arrival. By driving safely and conscientiously, a driver will arrive calmly and in good spirits.

And remember the annoying phrase, "Are we there yet?" has entered American English because of impatient children in the backseat.

An author may cut corners to finish quickly, but at what cost? Do you really want a slipshod product sooner or would you rather have a quality story later?

On GRRM's ASOIAF Update, he's left us with the following words and recommendations for reading.

Until then, let me suggest that you check out HUNTER'S RUN, the new SF novel I wrote with Daniel Abraham and Gardner Dozois, and INSIDE STRAIGHT, the first volume in our new Wild Cards triad from Tor. They are not A Song of Ice and Fire, true, but I'm very proud of them both and I think a lot of you might enjoy them. Both books will be on sale in January in hardcover. And if it's more epic fantasy that you're yearning for, there's never been more good fantasies being published than there are right now. Try Daniel Abraham, try Scott Lynch, try S.L. Farrell and David Anthony Durham and Peter S. Beagle, try Lisa Tuttle and Robin Hobb and Ellen Kushner, or any of myriad other authors whose work is making fantasy such an exciting genre to be a part of... and if you want a change of pace, hop over to historical fiction and sample some Bernard Cornwell, some Cecilia Holland, some Steven Pressfield, some David W. Ball. You'll be glad you did.
Meanwhile, I'll keep working.
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Good luck in finding something good to read. For my own part, I recently read Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. I wish I were still in puberty, I'd probably enjoy Goodkind's storytelling immensely. I also read The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. Once the story got going, I enjoyed it... but it took 570 pages to get going. (By the way, Williams' use of similes and metaphors is wonderful.) Before that I read The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts. She's a solid writer. I enjoyed her writing, but I never sympathized with any of her characters. I think I'm going to start looking at GRRM's recommendations a bit closer... maybe I'll read Robin Hobb next.
 
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Or, try more of GRRM. I really do love his short stories. Some of my favorites are The Skin Trade and The Way of Cross and Dragon. Oh, and The Glass Flower.

His retrospective is absolutely full of awesomeness. I really enjoyed his previous novels as well, particularly the Tuf Voyaging stuff and The Dying of the Light.
 
I read Hunter's Run about three months ago: very good.

And if you haven't read Dreamsongs/A RRetrospective, do so: it's an excellent collection of SF, Fantasy and Horror (and mixtures of these genres).
 
Regarding more Martin... I've read Fevre Dream and my criticism of it would be very close to my above remarks regarding a Janny Wurts' book. Of Curse of the Mistwraith, I said, "I enjoyed her writing, but I never sympathized with any of her characters." In FD, I never sympathized with any of the characters, but I could not put the book down. I was enthralled with the setting and amazed by the style of the storytelling.. and I did not even really identify with either of the protagonists. I'd highly recommend Fevre Dream... and I usually avoid horror stories like the plague.
 
BlueJimmie said:
I've been told that Greg Keyes' The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series is a good way to pass the time waiting for GRRM to deliver his next offering. I have them in my SFBC wishlist. Anybody hear anything about them?
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Books 1 and 2 are very good. 3 is a step down and Book 4 is absolutely horrendous. By Book 4 Keyes had obviously lost interest in the series and just wanted to finish it ASAP. Very mechanically written with very little of the nicer character touches in the first two books.
 
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