![]() ![]() While noting that his wife wouldn't allow anyone else to take over the series if she survives him, Martin did admit that at some point in the future someone else might. Television Distribution Horse: "That's when we all decided to just stand perfectly still for half a decade." He can't just say, "And then nothing happened to this guy for five years. ![]() He came up with the idea of having a 5 year jump between books to let all those kids and baby dragons grow into something more useful - but after struggling with the logistics of the time jump for over a year, he realized that the practical reality of having so many plotlines made it impossible. In Martin's case, his characters happen to be spread out across space and time, which makes everything much, much harder (not in the erotic sense).įor instance, Martin has talked about how he originally planned for his characters to grow up as the story advanced (that's why some of them were so young to begin with), only to realize he'd written hundreds of pages and only like a week had gone by. ![]() This would be hard enough to do if they were all, say, staying in the same summer house over a weekend filled with erotic misunderstandings. Further complicating matters is the fact that most of these characters have dangling plot threads that need to be brought to something resembling a satisfying conclusion. ![]()
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