GoT book/show confusion

[ThinkerX]

Well, here's my reasoning. It was five years between Storm of Swords and A Feast of Crows. Then it took another six years for A Dance of Dragons, which came out in 2011. There's no news on the release date of The Winds of Winter, so you're looking at around another year or two for that, gosh forbid three.

This brings us to A Dream of Spring which, if pattern holds, will be another five years, which brings us to around 7 more years before we can put this baby to bed, which is close to that 10 year mark. Cross your fingers that he doesn't experience any delays. OR better yet, hope the turn around time for A Dream of Spring is more akin to that of between A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords which was around a year, but that was the exception.

It's worse than that. The Dany Chapters from book one were released as a serial in Asimov's (or was it F&SF?) years before that book appeared.

This gets into outlining verses pantsing, but originally GRRM planned a five year story gap between Storm and Feast. A chance for the younger characters to grow up and Westeros to undergo some gradual changes. But he couldn't make it work. At one point, he was contemplating plugging the gap with a seven chapter prologue, but couldn't make that work, supposedly because the Dornish situation was too complex and Cersei was really busy killing people. Then he finally said screw it and scrapped the gap.

 

[SeverinR]

Thing to keep in mind is GRRM was a scriptwriter for a long while. Most of his published works, prior to Game of Thrones, were either collaborations or strung together novellas.

Hmm, that is how the Game of thrones story is. Many different character novellas intertwined into one large book.