GRRM defaces new novel.
Myself and a good friend of mine managed to attend a book signing by George R.R. Martin in Portsmouth, his new book A Feast for Crows finally came out.
The signing was quite a well attended affair and GRRM spoke for about half an hour, mainly about why AFfC took 5 years to write. It was quite interesting how he went through various ways of trying to tell the story before totally changing his original plan and essentially splitting the book into two, AFfC and the forthcoming Dance with Dragons. He did talk about finishing Tyrion and Danys story arcs, although quite what that means in relation to the storyline as a whole he didn't elaborate. The other interesting tidbit was the fact that Arya is a POV in both books, so I guess she will survive AFfC! It was good to see how much of an influence Tolkein was on his fantasy writing and, moreso with his Wildcards series, how Roleplaying helped him write. His view that Gandalf should have stayed dead had a direct impact on the longevity of his main characters was cool, I must say though that I think Ned is the only POV that Martin has killed off (yet).
He then answered questions for a further half an hour, although some of the questions were OTT and pretentious in the main they were good. He ran out of time before answering mine which would have been - "Was the Red Wedding part of your original plot for the books or did it, as Tolkien once said, write itself?" As GRRM as a 'penchant' for killing off main characters I wondered if it was his early intention to massacre the Starks or that was just the way the story panned out. He then went onto sign books, or deface them as he puts it. Annoying fanboys brought their whole collections along, idiots, what is the point?
The signing was quite a well attended affair and GRRM spoke for about half an hour, mainly about why AFfC took 5 years to write. It was quite interesting how he went through various ways of trying to tell the story before totally changing his original plan and essentially splitting the book into two, AFfC and the forthcoming Dance with Dragons. He did talk about finishing Tyrion and Danys story arcs, although quite what that means in relation to the storyline as a whole he didn't elaborate. The other interesting tidbit was the fact that Arya is a POV in both books, so I guess she will survive AFfC! It was good to see how much of an influence Tolkein was on his fantasy writing and, moreso with his Wildcards series, how Roleplaying helped him write. His view that Gandalf should have stayed dead had a direct impact on the longevity of his main characters was cool, I must say though that I think Ned is the only POV that Martin has killed off (yet).
He then answered questions for a further half an hour, although some of the questions were OTT and pretentious in the main they were good. He ran out of time before answering mine which would have been - "Was the Red Wedding part of your original plot for the books or did it, as Tolkien once said, write itself?" As GRRM as a 'penchant' for killing off main characters I wondered if it was his early intention to massacre the Starks or that was just the way the story panned out. He then went onto sign books, or deface them as he puts it. Annoying fanboys brought their whole collections along, idiots, what is the point?
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