Look Past The Dragons In Game of Thrones

New York Magazine ^ | May 19, 2013 | Matt Zoller Seitz

[chris37]

I had read an article somewhere recently, I believe it was an interview with him just prior to season three coming out.

It was in video form, and I recall the interviewer asking him something along the lines of people are worried that you aren’t getting any younger and are worried that about the last books being finished, to which he replied not to worry, he is working with 2 co-authors on them.

Of course I cannot find that video, otherwise I would link it. Nor can I find any other reference to co authors as I google the subject.

One of the things that struck me as to how well planned out the books are is that in Game of Thrones, when Arya had made her way down into the bowels of King’s Landing, she came across two shadowy men discussing vaguely their involvement in some yet to be revealed plot. But after reading book 5 and then reading book 1 again, the plot they are discussing is the exact same one those same to men set in motion in book 5 regarding a certain prince.

And then of course there are various visions and dreams that directly reference future key events and allude to which characters will soon be no more, such as when Theon was dreaming that he was eating at a table with the dead, and among those dead were...not to mention Danaerys’ journey through the tower of the undying where she saw a certain person and that person’s eventual gruesome fate.

So I do not get the impression that he is sort of writing as he goes, but rather following a prebuilt outline, but certainly filling in the find details as he writes.