GRRM thought that they would serve him well for this new story he was working on known as A Song of Ice and Fire. This writing process had served him well in the past as Martin was a commercially-successful author by the early 1990s. I do, however, have some strong notions as to the overall structure of the story I’m telling, and the eventual fate of many of the principle characters in the drama. I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it. Before getting to the meat of his proposed plot, he talked about his writing process:Īs you know, I don’t outline my novels. In 1993, George RR Martin wrote to his agent about an exciting new proposal for a trilogy of books. I invite you to come to my new blog at SubStack and also follow me on twitter. Additionally, I invite you to listen to the NotACast podcast: a podcast I co-host with esteemed human being PoorQuentyn! Thank you so much, and onto better things! I’m not going to charge you for reading my writing. I’ve got more to say, and I’d love if you all joined me at my new blog:Īnd that blog is …. The sweet part is that I’m not done writing. So, it’s a bittersweet ending to this blog which has been a major part of my life for a long, long time now, but it’s time to go.
The new block features that WordPress integrated made doing writing extraordinarily difficult. There are several reasons for this, but the most important reason is … this platform has become untenable as a User Interface for doing longform writing. I’m grateful for all of your eyeballs, your wonderful comments and your love of the work here.įor those of you who have been following this blog on WordPress for years now, you may have noticed a dearth of posts of late. And on a selfish level, I look at the statistics around this blog and know that millions of people have clicked on the blog, read it, commented and many of you have subscribed. I’ve loved writing about A Song of Ice and Fire on here, loved all the interaction I’ve had with so many of you. It was not an easy decision to leave WordPress. Why choose SubStack? Because it is easier to write essays, analysis and theories as well as eventually promote my forthcoming book The Cautioner’s Tale. So, a few days ago, I made the decision to leave WordPress altogether and create a new blog on SubStack ( ).
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