Probably started it over after the last season of the show came out, probably at least partially based on his idea of the ending, and everybody hated it.
Martin wrote the series to "subvert expectations," at a certain point he wrote himself into a corner and there's nothing left to subvert. He would have to just write a normal story and that's unbearable for him.
There's also the interesting tidbit that he had a collaborator on the first two books (the Expanse author) who left to pursue his own career, then Martin's output plummeted.
I doubt he wrote more than a chapter or two of Book 6, if even that.
It's something that so many people still cannot accept: Martin is and always was a hack. All writers that rely upon "subverting expectations" are terrible. Do you think Tolkien was interested in "subverting expectations"? Do you think Shelley was? Lewis, Barrie, Stoker, Carroll, etc, etc, etc.
Great authors don't look to subvert those that came before them. They simply wish to be among them, even if they often don't think they could be.
There's nothing wrong with a twist, but nutty leftists have decided that subverting expectations is the only thing that matters. Hence, they embrace every new degeneracy they encounter, and seek out the next, as if it's a badge of honor.
2016 was five years after the last book released and supposedly book 6 was already mostly done by then.
Probably started it over after the last season of the show came out, probably at least partially based on his idea of the ending, and everybody hated it.
Martin wrote the series to "subvert expectations," at a certain point he wrote himself into a corner and there's nothing left to subvert. He would have to just write a normal story and that's unbearable for him.
There's also the interesting tidbit that he had a collaborator on the first two books (the Expanse author) who left to pursue his own career, then Martin's output plummeted.
I doubt he wrote more than a chapter or two of Book 6, if even that.
It's something that so many people still cannot accept: Martin is and always was a hack. All writers that rely upon "subverting expectations" are terrible. Do you think Tolkien was interested in "subverting expectations"? Do you think Shelley was? Lewis, Barrie, Stoker, Carroll, etc, etc, etc.
Great authors don't look to subvert those that came before them. They simply wish to be among them, even if they often don't think they could be.
There's nothing wrong with a twist, but nutty leftists have decided that subverting expectations is the only thing that matters. Hence, they embrace every new degeneracy they encounter, and seek out the next, as if it's a badge of honor.
Martin doesn't even like Tolkien IIRC.