![]() And that's without including any of the other sample chapters we've gotten, plus the stuff we haven't. Then 7+ chapters of the battles, so another ~75-100 pages. So that's 6 chapters definitely that happen before the battles even begin, which we can estimate to be roughly 50-75+ pages of material I'd say. And who knows where Mercy, Alayne, The Forsaken, Arianne I & II fit in. So right there that's 7 chapters between the 2 battles, and that's assuming the Battle of Ice only occurs in 2.ĮDIT: I wasn't even thinking about the chapters that by necessity come before this as well, The Prologue, Theon I, Tyrion I, Barristan I, Victarion I & II. We can assume that Victarion II will take place during the battle, but that also leaves Tyrion III potentially, and most likely Barristan III. Stannis and Theon"? I imagine it'll be part of the Asha Fragment, and the chapter either ends or gets really interesting when the Freys arrive. ![]() So does this mean 2 chapters for Battle of Ice? And what about the "Trip to the Lake feat. We have no idea what's going on in that Bran chapter. The Asha Fragment, Barristan II, and Tyrion II are definitely battle scenes. Assuming the following POVs cover these battles, I wonder what the actual order would be, and how many more chapters per battle we'll get: I always thought we'd get one battle, then the other, but it seems like it would've gone back and forth. My original intent was to end DANCE with the two big battles, yes… intercutting between the two of them, each told through several different points of view. This is another interesting tidbit that people have debated for years: Those who think they are have obviously never written anything, or had to deal with the realities of publishing, So even without the battles, it worked pretty well… but part of me still wonders if we made the right choice. It was a Hugo finalist, won the Locus Award for best fantasy of the year, and was named by TIME magazine as the book of the year. And DANCE, even without the battles, was extremely well received - yes, there were dissenters, I know that, readers who did not like the book as well as the earlier volumes, but out in the wider world, DANCE had extremely strong sales, rode the bestseller lists for a long long time. But back then I had the fans howling after DANCE the same way they are howling after WINDS now, and my publishers really really did not want to push back again. I understand your frustration, and some days I do feel the same way. That could also have affected the pricing.ĭid we make the right decision? I don’t know, even to this day. And given how far ahead publishers schedule their releases, the pushback would not have been a few days or a few weeks, but at least half a year, and maybe longer.Īlso, DANCE was already very long, and the battles would have made it substantially longer. Initially I decided to push one battle back to WINDS to focus on the other, but that did not work either, and neither of the sequences came together the way I wanted them to, so ultimately the choice came down to moving both of the battles to WINDS or cancelling the planned publication and pushing back DANCE. The book had already been scheduled for publication, I had blown through several previous deadlines, and we simply ran out of time. ![]() Battles are bloody hard, and I wanted these to be great. Also, maybe even more to the point, not yet good enough in my estimation. But NOT COMPLETE, which became the issue.
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