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SummerandBran wrote: Well don't authors usually have deadlines for their next book in a series? He's admitted he's a slow writer but he seems to have time to do little side projects when the show really needs him to write! I would think he'd want the show to be all it can be since it's a reflection of him. Oh well.

His first three books, A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords, all came out within two years of each other (1996, 1998, and 2000), it was the fact that he had to abandon the five year time jump, that caused him to slow to a crawl. He basically had to rework his whole framework. Plus, he was very involved with the in the show's devolpment early on, writing a script for the first four seasons (Baelor, Blackwater, The Bear and the Maiden Fair, The Lion and the Rose). A script for him takes about three months, that's three months of writing that could have gone to The Winds of Winter.