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.
I have the ultimate subversion: the Others stop faffing around and execute their plan, bulldozing the Wall down, overrunning Westeros, bringing on an eternal winter to it, and killing everyone. Because bad guys and the universe as a whole don't just wait around for everyone else to finish their character arcs before taking action. Bam, big story about deconstructing fantasy conventions done.
I've known d&d campaigns to turn out like that. Party decides to fuck off on a side quest of their own fabrication then wonder why the apocalypse happens 6 months later.
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.
I have the ultimate subversion: the Others stop faffing around and execute their plan, bulldozing the Wall down, overrunning Westeros, bringing on an eternal winter to it, and killing everyone. Because bad guys and the universe as a whole don't just wait around for everyone else to finish their character arcs before taking action. Bam, big story about deconstructing fantasy conventions done.
I've known d&d campaigns to turn out like that. Party decides to fuck off on a side quest of their own fabrication then wonder why the apocalypse happens 6 months later.
Based.