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Does knowing it's coming completely the soften the blow when it actually comes to time to reap the costs of those actions (or on this case lack of action lol)? It's like someone who leads a very unhealthy lifestyle year after year knowing that it will probably have consequences down the road but knowing that their ongoing habits are going to cost them doesn't necessarily make it that much easier when it does cost them.
Good points, can't really argue. Maybe the dejection he's feeling right now will serve some good in propelling himself to the finish line.
He actually wrote Dunk and Egg just after he finished writing the first novel, around the same time he was working on Clash.
Because he wanted the series to have a time jump after Storm to show the story was at a different point and wrote the beginnings of that, but then rewrote it when he realised that he'd have to either include a lot of flashbacks to what these characters (especially the children characters) were doing in that gap, or else make it that Autumn lasted for a few years and nothing happened in the intervening time. Neither idea appealed to him so he rewrote it to set in the immediate aftermath of Storm.
It was stuff like that, because he was setting up the next phase of his story he had to juggle and rewrite a lot of his planned material.
Books 4 and 5 were originally supposed to be one big novel, so a lot of his problems with writing them are connected. 5 especially was worse because he had several elements with Meereen that gave him trouble and needed to be rewritten, which he ultimately managed to get through by utilising Ser Barristan.
I think afterwards he definitely slowed down, but that's because after ADWD came out he basically had the dual role of writing the books, and also working as producer and screenwriter for the show, which he said is something he struggled with in terms of going between the script and prose. Plus the interviews and and promotion he did for the show. It's why he ultimately removed himself entirely from the process after season 4.
Well I think the Greyjoys have significance in terms of being enemies and allies to Dany and moving her character further to where it needs to be, spiritually and geographically (though Aeron is entirely his own thing, which makes his inclusion in the show bizarre as hell.) The Martells too, though only one of them is a current POV, they're intertwined with the coming Dance of the Dragons. So I can see the why, and maybe the how of him choosing to add some of these new characters. Maybe not all of them, as I don't know what on earth Areo Hotah could possibly build up to, but who knows.
Surprisingly enough, I think the most relevant to core ASOIAF plot is actually Jon Connington, "Griff", mainly for the implications he brings to R+L=J
Well I've a mind that Victarion gives his ships to Dany willingly at this point, given how fanatically in love with her Moqorro made him in ADWD (along with making him undead), so I think he'll serve as some of the added muscle she'll need getting back to Westeros. The Crow's Eye is a bit different because he's also attacking Oldtown in the books, and I can only imagine there's something in the Citadel he's looking for, which some have speculated is the Horn of Winter. That leads me to think he's a Dany villain, but also sets up the WW invasion too. A big point is made about "Dead things in the water" and Moqorro calls the Drowned God a demon in service of the Great Other.
With Griff....I think that certain young man he's raising ties into something else. ACoK described a false Prophet, and Dany is called the "Slayer of Lies". So I think there's something to that. Whereas Jon Connington, Rhaegar's close friend...well I think he and another Jon have a lot to talk about.
The biggest thing with Young Griff, is that he ties into Varys and this idea that Varys isn't who he sells himself as to Tyrion and co. The show makes it seem like he's genuine about wanting to help the realm and is all for Dany as queen, whereas in the books I think with Young Griff it shows that the guy actually has an agenda that might not be so benevolent. So I wonder what exactly that means for the two portrayals.