George R.R. Martin is giving updates on all the projects he’s involved in and weighed in on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In his latest blog entry, Martin says that the WGA strike “is …

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    Dude has written himself into three different corners and likely doesn’t see a (satisfying) way to wrap it up in two books, so he’s decided to give up. If the rumors are true and he gave B&B the elevator pitch version of his ending, he may be hemming hawing about how much to course correct from their version. His Bran running Westeros could certainly come into being more elegantly than the show’s, but jeez it would be very weird in its own way.

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      So I never read through all the books, but I’ve listened to/read bits and pieces across the first few. Would you mind sharing what you mean by writing himself into 3 corners, and what those 3 corners are? I’ve watched a bunch of videos with lore explanations and obviously seen the HBO adaptation so spoilers aren’t something I’m worried about.

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        I was being glib about how many corners, and it’s been years and years since I read the books. That said, what I’ve heard is that he doesn’t fully outline the story first, and follows it where his imagination leads him (to a certain extent. he’s obviously a successful novelist). But it has meant that there are a LOT of threads left to trim or weave together and only two (theoretically) books left to do it. Dany is still stuck in the east with a lot of important shit to do, the Dorne stuff and the fake Targaryen have to find some reason to be so prominent, the white walkers were handled a bit haphazardly in the show and show little sign of being integrated into the books overarching plot YET. He still has to decide how (and “if” I suppose) he wants to bring Jon back, whether R+L=J is still the way he wants to go with that, to say nothing of how he will actually end the thing… There are just a lot of spinning plates, and I can imagine he doesn’t want to let any drop but may have to if he actually wants to finish this story in no more than 3000 pages (and even that will be a lot)

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          Thanks for the response! Sounds about right from what little I remember about all the lore and stuff lol