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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 9123016" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>That's the problem with GRRM. He doesn't "lovingly" design anything. He doesn't write to an outline and has only a mostly firm idea of where he wants to get to -- with no idea or set plan as to how he will get there. He describes this to writing as a "gardener" as opposed to as an "architect".</p><p></p><p>The gap has nothing to do with it; not really. He blamed his initial slow speed on this costing him a "year" of writing, but the falsity of that is now laid bare, 20 years later. The muse he wasn't feeling didn't have anything to do with a 5 or 1 year gap. The plain truth is that it had to do with the size of GRRM's burgeoning bank account. That's the real story here.</p><p></p><p>We haven't got a new Cersei chapter <strong><em>in over 18 years.</em></strong> The character that people came to know on the series? She's a very interesting character, but she's not Cersei as written in the novels, and certainly not as we left her in <em>AFFC.</em> Cersei's chapters in <em>AFFC </em>utilize an unreliable narrator device; where what Cersei sees and reacts to in King's Landing as she tries to rule in Tommen's name is told is <em>mostly</em> only through her eyes. The reader has to figure this out for themselves though and parse out carefully the parts where Cersei is too stupid to see the machinations of those around her. Many people missed this on a first reading of <em>AFFC</em> and accepted it in good faith. GRRM is subtle in much of Cersei's POVs. She is being manipulated, especially by Lady Taena (who is wholly absent from the TV series) and it is all extremely interesting stuff. What is true and what isn't? We're still waiting.</p><p></p><p>We haven't had a new chapter from Cersei s<strong><em>ince 2005</em></strong>. The PoVs that were left out of <em>AFFC</em> were all developed, written and included in <em>ADwD.</em>... so, yeah. 2005 was the last time we heard from Cersei. That has nothing to do with any gap.</p><p></p><p>I've given up hope at this point; though there is something to the idea that a novel series is more commercially valuable as a going concern while part of it is still being written, and less so after it is complete. Whatever the case, it hardly matters now. 12 years is <em>too goddamned long</em> to wait for a book - any book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 9123016, member: 20741"] That's the problem with GRRM. He doesn't "lovingly" design anything. He doesn't write to an outline and has only a mostly firm idea of where he wants to get to -- with no idea or set plan as to how he will get there. He describes this to writing as a "gardener" as opposed to as an "architect". The gap has nothing to do with it; not really. He blamed his initial slow speed on this costing him a "year" of writing, but the falsity of that is now laid bare, 20 years later. The muse he wasn't feeling didn't have anything to do with a 5 or 1 year gap. The plain truth is that it had to do with the size of GRRM's burgeoning bank account. That's the real story here. We haven't got a new Cersei chapter [B][I]in over 18 years.[/I][/B] The character that people came to know on the series? She's a very interesting character, but she's not Cersei as written in the novels, and certainly not as we left her in [I]AFFC.[/I] Cersei's chapters in [I]AFFC [/I]utilize an unreliable narrator device; where what Cersei sees and reacts to in King's Landing as she tries to rule in Tommen's name is told is [I]mostly[/I] only through her eyes. The reader has to figure this out for themselves though and parse out carefully the parts where Cersei is too stupid to see the machinations of those around her. Many people missed this on a first reading of [I]AFFC[/I] and accepted it in good faith. GRRM is subtle in much of Cersei's POVs. She is being manipulated, especially by Lady Taena (who is wholly absent from the TV series) and it is all extremely interesting stuff. What is true and what isn't? We're still waiting. We haven't had a new chapter from Cersei s[B][I]ince 2005[/I][/B]. The PoVs that were left out of [I]AFFC[/I] were all developed, written and included in [I]ADwD.[/I]... so, yeah. 2005 was the last time we heard from Cersei. That has nothing to do with any gap. I've given up hope at this point; though there is something to the idea that a novel series is more commercially valuable as a going concern while part of it is still being written, and less so after it is complete. Whatever the case, it hardly matters now. 12 years is [I]too goddamned long[/I] to wait for a book - any book. [/QUOTE]
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