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Heck_Tate t1_iycxeyk wrote

No no no no no no no.

A Dance with Dragons came out in 2011 when the show was in season 1. I went to a sci-fi and fantasy convention that same year and he read a chapter from Winds of Winter. I don't know where the rest of the book is, but he had it at least partially finished at that time.

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SAT0725 OP t1_iycxn5x wrote

I still feel like it'd screw with your process to suddenly have faces to go with all the characters in your head. Like suddenly you're writing to specific people when before they were your own creations, just in your head.

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NinjaEngineer t1_iyd4q5c wrote

The Harry Potter movies didn't stop JKR from finishing the series. The first movie came out before the fifth book did.

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SAT0725 OP t1_iyd9c0x wrote

> The first movie came out before the fifth book did

To be fair though, by the time the fifth book came out she was probably well into the writing of the last one. It takes forever for publishers to go to print, usually more than a year after the book is finished.

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NinjaEngineer t1_iydfgxl wrote

Not sure that rebuttal helps your point; by your own logic, by the time the first season of Game of Thrones came out, GRRM should've been finishing the last book.

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SAT0725 OP t1_iydr4vw wrote

Eh, different writers have different processes. Seems like I've read interviews with Rowling where she's said she had the whole story in her head almost from the very start.

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Master_Ryan_Rahl t1_iyetih1 wrote

Martin had two strong picks in casting for the show, Sean Bean as Ned Stark and Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister. He got them both obviously.

Martin wrote a ton for television in his career so casting actors for his books was always something he might consider.

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