2:25 "I sorta forgot about Bran".While George forgot about Bran, Bran certainly didn't forget about George.

@lerulara

5 жыл бұрын

Bran though George looked beautiful that night

@osamazafar6264

5 жыл бұрын

Bran is about to subvert George's expectations.

@emceesmith6665

17 күн бұрын

Bran's player wasn't available that night

I love the “unreliable narrator” and also how information takes months to get from one end of the world to another and how thats reflected.

@MrKrtek00

5 жыл бұрын

Agree, one of the strong points of the books is this kind of realism of lack of information. There is no objective narrator who tells us what is happening, but we see how people digest and create semi-reliable or false information all along.

@josharntt

5 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of Braveheart how some of the men think that William Wallace is seven feet tall.

@Gyork_

5 жыл бұрын

I take you didn't liked how in the show when the raven goes from the north to DragonStone in less than a day.

@porridgepatrol1907

5 жыл бұрын

Laughs in elder scrolls

@lucasfranke3326

5 жыл бұрын

I also love this kind of narrative. I think the best "unreliable narrator" is in the Elder Scrolls series of games. Okay, I know the game isn't "narrated", but I'm talking about how everyone tells the story in an unreliable way an you kind of have to read everything from all points of views and think about it to actually get close to the "truth". I mean, Nords and imperials will talk about how the High Elves conquered them, but conveniently not mention how the empire did the same to them and all other races of Tamriel previously. Now, there's another thing in TES' universe that makes this even more complex and unreliable. Dragonbreaks. It's a hard concept to explain, but basically time "breaks" and results in numerous events which contradict each other happening at the same time and still converging back in one single timeline. That makes understanding history even more difficult XD

You know you're a dedicated writer when you hold on to regrets from a book your wrote over 20 years ago.

@rakninja

3 жыл бұрын

well, considering he'd been professionally writing for 20 years or so prior to THAT.... you should probably check out the compilations of his pre-westeros work what includes his commentary.

@nyarlathotep13

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he’s still writing it.

@jaimelannister1797

3 жыл бұрын

Probably why he's taking so long on Winds of Winter. He's such a perfectionist. IMO I think should Winds of Winter release it'll be on par or maybe even better than A Storm of Swords

@teknogeek1378

3 жыл бұрын

Every creator feels that

@ringofasho7721

Жыл бұрын

He's still writing the book he started 20 years ago

He clearly gets bothered by even the tiniest mistakes that in the end don't affect anything. Imagine how hard he has cried seeing Game of Thrones Season 8.

@trevusimon

4 жыл бұрын

he didn't watch it.

@DevDevi

4 жыл бұрын

@@trevusimon , Good to know.

@lonestarr1490

4 жыл бұрын

@/Nihilist \ If he finally releases them.

@originaltubebry

4 жыл бұрын

Why would he? He helped write it. If anything he's crying because half of the audience loved it, half hated it and he doesn't know how to finish his books or which side to cater to now.

@paullutze9307

4 жыл бұрын

Bryan ONeill I don’t think that the perception of the audience on the last season will have any effects on him writing his story. He said he already knows how the story will end, which Charakters will die and which will survive. If anything more people will be interested in the books now. They want to know how the “true” story ends and perhaps read the books although at first they only fell in love with the show.

George kinda forgot about Bran Daenerys kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet

@LiberatedMind1

5 жыл бұрын

Jamie forgot he doesn’t love Cersei anymore, and that she had Bronn go and kill him, so he went back to her. Then Cersei forgot she didn’t love Jamie and tried to have him killed and they cried and died together. Such fucking horse shit.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

@Adaneth I think, it wasn't millions of people he was concerned about, but Mad King ordered Jaime to bring him his father (Tywin's) head

@MBkratos11

5 жыл бұрын

Konstantin Yagodin he deliberately says that he couldn't let the mad king burn all those people and that's why he killed Aerys's Pyromancer before killing him

@AlabasterSexington

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone forgot about Dre

@SirBananaFunk

5 жыл бұрын

now thats foreshadowing

The Tyrion flip definitely had a 'magical leprechaun' feel to it, which is odd since he becomes such a grounding character.

@ChadzyC

5 жыл бұрын

Angela S I didn’t understand that, what’s the “Tyrion Flip”?

@angelas1060

5 жыл бұрын

In the books, Jon and Tyrion meet similar to the show (outside the feast for the King) except Jon's got his direwolf with him and Tyrion's sitting perched up on a doorframe or something like that, I can't remember. He asks to pet Ghost and does this weird summersault down from the frame, lands upside down on his hands then flips again onto his feet. The whole thing with him sitting up on the building then doing this weird flip makes him seem like some magical goblin or something. It's just very counter to how Tyrion turns out to be later on but it can be argued it was a POV thing and more Jon's perception (it's his POV chapter). But then GRRM says stuff like in this interview and, yeah, it's just overall weird. lol

@tonyrandall3146

5 жыл бұрын

Angela S LOL im just finishing the first book now.. Completely agree..

@FranZidane97

5 жыл бұрын

@@angelas1060 I'm reading ADWD at the moment, and Tyrion reminisces a lot about his childhood, a time when he used to be practicing those kind of acrobatic moves all the time, cheered by most of the Casterly Rock people, specially by his uncle Gerion. What I'm trying to say here, is that Tyrion's likes used to be very different, but Tywin 'castrated' him in more than one way during his early years (I mean, The Imp even wanted to be a septum in his youth!). So, I would say the flip is not out of character at all.

@Lalvon_Zelpharr

5 жыл бұрын

@@angelas1060 That's like something you would see from Lord of the Rings or something lol so fucking stupid

His biggest mistake was trusting D&D to finish off his masterpiece books

@rightwingersexposed8800

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, a 100% agreed. There has never been a bigger mistake.

@tobi6206

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe just a huge marketing campaign for the books

@rightwingersexposed8800

5 жыл бұрын

@@tobi6206 I have said this but I will say it again, After the last episode, he should tweet out: "This is why you read books and my books bitches". He will be remembered as the greatest man alive.

@XpMonsterX

5 жыл бұрын

D&D don't have their money from him. He gave HBO all rights to do whatever they want. So if you want to blame someone it is probably HBO.

@rightwingersexposed8800

5 жыл бұрын

@@Chrisko1492 He trusted them with the property to begin with.

It seems he's not able to answer the actual question without spoiling the story. For instance he wrote a note at the end of a Feast for Crows, saying that this book was a bitch to write but a necessary one to align all the characters and get them in the right place for the next act. I'm sure there's many small choices he made at the start that butterfly'd into massive unanticipated problems that he had to write his way aorund again. Those are the narrative corners she was fishing for, but to explain those would be giving away the end-goal of the journey.

@MatiZ815

5 жыл бұрын

I read that he supposedly killed off a character that he actually needs now.

@trinity8675309

5 жыл бұрын

Where'd you hear that? That sounds intriguing.

@MatiZ815

5 жыл бұрын

@@trinity8675309 I think he said that himself. Just look it up.

@tysonmindham2986

5 жыл бұрын

An sionnach dearg Totally agree, A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons (beings they are meant to act as one volume) were all massive build up to the next act. But not the boring kind of build up but rather George weaved characters into locations and parallel happenings all to unfold in The Winds of Winter. No wonder it takes him so incredibly long to write the books. The man is a brilliant author.

I wonder how his imagination was as a child... So many characters live in his head. Such a literary genius. Literally.

@BoundForAdventure

5 жыл бұрын

Literarally

@BoundForAdventure

5 жыл бұрын

@Josh D why would I have been trying to correct his spleen? I'm not even a doctor

@Stevepro-qo4rj

5 жыл бұрын

@Josh D r/woosh

@x192743tf

5 жыл бұрын

@shenron A lot of his storylines are pulled from the War of the Roses. He's good at interconnecting character moments, but so are a lot of other writers.

@AllIsWellaus

5 жыл бұрын

Talented for sure. I personally wouldn't class his works as genius though.

Lol I was like wtf when Tyrion did a triple flip landing into a handstand.

@somethingfunny4332

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, right?

@axrye800

2 жыл бұрын

And he never did that again lmao

Always appreciate someone who is speaking publicly take their time to formulate their ideas instead of ummmmmming there way through lol. Good on you George!

@CatharticSense

4 жыл бұрын

Where way through what?

@seeker296

2 жыл бұрын

that pause really caught me off guard. I was like, is my video buffering (I was audio only)?

I bought the set of books for my daughter. I thought they are not for me. No way do I want to read them. I picked the first book up... 93 days later I put the last one down. Loved them, thank you GRRM.

I always felt a bit off about the introduction of Tyrion as well. It was way too silly.

@francisyockey2215

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@arhamsaa

5 жыл бұрын

And his introduction in the show was also silly. "the brothel scene" which isn't in the books. Tyrion Lannister loves sex but he isn't a stupid pervert who gets so impressed by prostitutes. He was acting like a 18 year old desperate teenager. At the moment I thought of him not more than a fuckboy. Later he turned out to be a very mature person. Thankfully there were no other scenes where he was craving to fuck prostitutes. It felt too inconsistent to his mature personality.

@MatiZ815

5 жыл бұрын

@@arhamsaa It didn't bother me at all. I rewatched the series before the final season and I loved it because it's such a contrast from where he is now.

@shotgundiplomat2406

5 жыл бұрын

@@MatiZ815 Same. It shows growth. It's not just Jaime that has grown up a bit.

@arhamsaa

5 жыл бұрын

@@MatiZ815 I am only talking about his perverse nature. Which defines his character the least out of all other qualities he possesses. The contrast between his old and new self is in his judgement and mentality.

I thought he'd mention that the kids are all too young. If I remember correctly, he initially planned a several year gap after the Red Wedding, but once he started writing books 3 and 4 he realized he couldn't do it, leaving many of the young characters younger than he would have liked. That's one thing the HBO show "fixed," aging up all the characters about three years.

@krzysztofpiasek5682

5 жыл бұрын

@Adrien Lasbleiz No you wouldn't. Not in real world, not in Martins creation. In ASOIAF age when boys became men was age of 16. It was stated many times when talking about Robb and Jon.

@krzysztofpiasek5682

5 жыл бұрын

@Adrien Lasbleiz They were married by their parents for political reasons. They didn't choose their partners, they had no saying in who they marry at all and they sometimes didn't see each other till the wedding. They didn't marry because they were treated as adults. Furthermore they weren't rulers till they reached acceptable age that was by no means preteen... and what is your point exactly with Black Death?

@krzysztofpiasek5682

5 жыл бұрын

@Adrien Lasbleiz Yeah. But it was pretty big thing you left out. How the fuck is pointing out political marriages proving kids were considered adults so quickly? They were sometimes married quickly because somebody needed an alliance or land. Girls became women in middle ages at the age of 14. They could inherit land and bear children. Sure. But guess what age was it for boys? 21. They weren't administering inherited land if they are younger but their parents or other adult relatives. Young rulers often had regents, they weren't rulling kingdom at the age of 9 or 10. And in GoT Robb is the eldest not reaching 16 yet. Arya is a small preeten child, Rickon is 3, Bran 6 and Sansa like 12. They were very young. And name of the Black Death is just that. A name. It was propagated by adults not by small children. Please dude...

@ShellShock794

5 жыл бұрын

@Adrien Lasbleiz It doesn't matter. These stories are not history. They didn't actually happen. It's a fictional world completely separate from real examples or similes. Go argue on Shadiversity or some other medieval history channel.

@Bane_questionmark

5 жыл бұрын

Arguably the age up isn't a perfect "fix" as they apply it from the beginning. Though that may have been appropriate for the modern TV format, for example I believe Dany starts out something like 13 or 14 and quickly has a graphic marriage consummation scene with Khal Drogo. You can't get away with shit like that on TV, even HBO (paradoxically, considering TV has a rating system meant to "protect" children while books do not, I read GoT when I was 12 and could have easily bought it myself despite the "mature content").

Yeah, Tyrion’s somersault in Winterfell really baffled me lol.

I love this clip - thank you for posting. "My readers see some deep meaning to Bran's absence. I just forgot about him." I love that line (paraphrasing on my part.)

I didn't realise Tyrion had done a somersault. lol! I just opened the book to confirm it. How lucky that I just happened to be reading that scene anyway!

@hasaanasim6280

5 жыл бұрын

Which book?

@NekoSamaIru

5 жыл бұрын

"A Game of Thrones" page 53

@hasaanasim6280

5 жыл бұрын

Thx!

@jacobsummers3441

5 жыл бұрын

The moment GRRM mentioned the Tyrion flip, I already knew what it was because it was quite a funny scene. I thought Tyrion was some kind of formidable warrior or something because he could do those kind of things.

@LadyStoneheart312

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobsummers3441 lol imagine Tyrion fighting Yoda style with flips and somersaults

I think that “mistakes” are just part of the reality of humanity.

Poor George. You can tell it was an uphill struggle for him to try and make Bran work as a character.

I love watching his interviews. This man is truly remarkable. Really hope he finishes

I noticed in all of his answers and talks. He is very considered in his answers. Even what we would see as trivial or small things. I like that

Bran is like wtf bro lol

There's also the Meereenese Knot, where he spent years trying to figure out how to intermesh the stories of several of the main characters.

@ClaireYunFarronXIII

5 жыл бұрын

Not really a mistake, but more of a difficult sequence of events to write and communicate properly... He did succeed in doing it perfectly, though. He got it all to fit properly.

kinda forgot about Bran

@LadmeB

5 жыл бұрын

GRRM did it first!

Men george is just an absolut legend, love him talking about his work

Tyrion doing the flip is one of the best moments in the book series, and there's enough explanation to it to stop it from feeling out of place.

@meurer13daniel

5 жыл бұрын

Not really, it's a mistake. Nothing wrong with that. Pretending it's something else won't lead to anything. By the way, Tyrion later chapter talks a LOT of his legs and difficulties to walk. And that vision is the one used afterwards.

Don’t worry, the show also kinda forgets about Bran for a while

Gotta respect anyone who is capable of admitting their mistakes. A lot of people don’t.

He's playing the part of an unreliable narrator! I bet there IS a reason Bran wasn't mentioned!

@FernandoMendoza-dw8nz

5 жыл бұрын

ASOIAF fans be like. Lol...hell i do it too!

Tyrion's flip annoyed Martin so much that he forced himself to give it a backstory in ADWD, and you know I kinda like it.

ITS NOT THE GAME OF THRONES BOOKS ITS A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE!!!

1:18 mood about 2018 for 2019

Take your time man

His biggest mistake is still not finishing the books in time. I'm not being ungrateful, but seeing some other writers finish your beloved story and the world -- in which you spent nearly 30 years -- and not doing a very good job at it (putting it mildly) must be heartbreaking. It is equally as heartbreaking for us fans, too.

@hunbbelmeer6600

5 жыл бұрын

@@Binga_rs Yes, but if the 2 books are never released (looks a possibility), then this is all we have in terms of conclusion and how the story ends.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

@@hunbbelmeer6600 Then it didn't end at all. Better than this shit we see on screen.

@Radial9Gaming

5 жыл бұрын

@@Binga_rs someone like Brandon Sanderson can finish them. He did finish the wheel of time

Also I can't see how he would ever reveal the fate of Syrio Forel as i doubt Ser Merryn will have his own Pov chapter

@prostufamiliei

5 жыл бұрын

he may be a prologue or epilogue character at some point, maybe getting killed by arya, if she ever returns to westeros, or maybe in a battle against griff's invasion forces

@leonlawson2196

5 жыл бұрын

Arya? Or Sansa? Or anyone Ser Merryn speaks to regarding him?

@alexandrebeaudry8377

5 жыл бұрын

Can he be a faceless man?... Jaquen Hagaar? He speak to Arya the same way and speak about the only god: death.

@GewalfofWivia

5 жыл бұрын

The simplest explanation to the fate of a man who was last seen fighting armed and armored elite soldiers unarmed, and never seen again, is that he's dead.

@alexandrebeaudry8377

5 жыл бұрын

@@GewalfofWivia Simplest.... yeah... but did you forget it's GOT. Remember the first time we see him his face his hidden. Might not be for no reason

Wondering what George thinks about the costumes of the tv series, if they look the way he imagined it while writing, or if he advised them about it.

@GewalfofWivia

5 жыл бұрын

It doesn't really matter. Each reader would've imagined it differently.

@acaree4774

5 жыл бұрын

same

@TheFiresloth

5 жыл бұрын

GRRM love colours. So that's probably something he's not super happy with.

@Lucy-ng7cw

5 жыл бұрын

TheFiresloth It’s like everyone joined the nights watch in the show lol.

@greatsarmatae

5 жыл бұрын

@@GewalfofWivia well, not exactly, because such books provide full information about clothes etc from the author, so... No. And no, TV show has terrible costumes. Just extremely terrible.

"These are simple mistakes and they irritate me" - same George, same

Imo I feel like he's created such an incredible epic and theres so many storylines and amazing characters he foesnt want to short anyone. He doesnt want to just short change the Greyjoys and the Martells who imo are the main reason he's taking so long. Especially the Greyjoys holy shit lol they're too interesting and promising to write an unjustified ending....he could write 20 books on each family it's mind blowing.....AND THATS why the show imo has gone down hill so much since season 6, and really season 4. It feels rushed, it's hard to watch at times but because I enjoy some of the characters (Jaime, Arya, Cersei, The Hound, Tyrion, Davos) so much I still enjoy it

Oh god the minor mistake thing. Reminds me of when I constructed an elaborate mystery for my D&D group with lots of moving parts and the players needed to figure out what was real, what wasn't etc. And then there was a dumb mistake I made that made the whole thing impossible, and I just had to say "this piece of evidence which you needed to get to the right conclusion was actually wrong lol"

see even pros make mistakes

@Anna133199

5 жыл бұрын

In GRRM's case it's acceptable. There are soooo many characters and storylines and pages.. Any other random professional.. Not really.

@meurer13daniel

5 жыл бұрын

And it's really funny because the inconsistencies he mentions are basically eye colors and the silly Tyrion presentation. Really mind blowing when you think about it.

@MoffatLee

5 жыл бұрын

@@meurer13daniel Except there are some other major mistakes, for example he intended to have a 5 year period after the red wedding where characters could grow to be closer to an adult age but he ended up in a position where he realised that a time skip wouldn't be feasible. The result is that he has written himself into a narrative corner with regard to some of his less mature characters because he fully intended to give them time to grow but is now unable to do so. Arya is gonna come across as either being magically trained super-fast, to the point where the faceless men don't make sense in terms of the power they wield as an organisation, or she's just not gonna have the training needed for her intended purpose as a character resulting in either some major use of plot convenience to help her on her way or him having to give up on parts of her story altogether.

@meurer13daniel

5 жыл бұрын

@@MoffatLee problems that didn't happened yet (she's still training in the beginning of TWOW) . Yes, Arya probably won't have a full training with the faceless man, but it doesn't mean Martin will write her as she did. Of course this isn't true to the show, but D&D doesn't know what consistence means, so that's a thing.

@battledroid8999

5 жыл бұрын

@@meurer13daniel dont forget my man the transexual horse

is it just me or does he sound like heath ledgers joker

@Alloniya

5 жыл бұрын

Gosh yes

@gaururahirkar

5 жыл бұрын

Aye!!

@mssweets6119

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!! Why are authors crazy

@gaururahirkar

5 жыл бұрын

@@mssweets6119 crazy people are often creative and highly imaginative 😅

@meh23p

5 жыл бұрын

“It’s all part of the plan” yeah, I hear it too.

the first mistakes are not in Spanish version as the translator pointed them out to him :D

The fact he writes with an unreliable narrator in mind makes you wonder how this is implemented in the series. Viewers believe anything as it is shown in the series. Now when parts of the narrative are subjectivly told one might wonder, which things in the series are really real. It might even be an entirely twisted story, that never played out that way.

@gatotsu2501

5 жыл бұрын

Filmmakers have struggled with how to implement unreliable narrators for ages; the nature of a photographic (or pseudo-photographic) image implies objectivity in a way that a textual description of something does not. The camera, by default, is assumed to be an impartial (or at least, non-deceptive) narrator. The GoT is directed - and with the added challenge of trying to ground an audience in the “reality” of a fantasy world - the showrunners pretty much have to accept that anything depicted on the screen is “real”. So there’s less ambiguity in the story generally. But the showrunners still manage to incorporate some of the ambiguity and unreliability of the books (particularly in earlier seasons) by having certain events occur offscreen, communicating certain plot developments through dialogue rather than action (usually a taboo for screenwriting but not actually as bad as people say if done well), and using flashbacks only very sparingly (in the early seasons not at all).

"[Martin] just sort of forgot about bran"

Feels like Tyrion was originally going to be more of a leprechaun like character but was changed at some point, and the flip was left in by mistake.

GREAT QUESTION

Now that GRRM has so much power, isn't it possible to basically make an "updated" version of his books where he corrects these things and publish these updated books??

I remember a writing course I took once where the instructor told us that if you mention a candlestick in a scene then you'd better be beating someone over the head with it in a future one. Sometimes you're so busy describing things that you throw in extras without meaning to. At that point you either need to go back and clean it up or find a way to tie it in. Loose threads are sloppy. I can see why he's uncomfortable with them.

I wish he could have deadpan responded, "Well, killing people kinda closes some possibilities."

His biggest mistake was leaving show in hand of Dumb & Dumbest.

Still not as bad as Toriyama who completely forgot about Launch in DBZ.

Who could hate this man?

Cat's hysterical laugh at the red wedding was very similar to Tyrion's flip.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, she went insane for an instant before her throat was cut. Absolutely possible.

@yvesgomes

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperCosty2010 It was cheesy af.

GRRM: While Bran kinda forgot to attend a family feast at Winterfell.

I'm an unpublished author. A few years ago, I talked someone into reading one of my novels. He got a few chapters in and stopped. A while later, I asked him how he liked it so far and where he was in the book, and he finally informed me of stopping. He said there were two many inconsistencies and gave me a handful of examples, and literally everything he named was intentional foreshadowing, mostly clues that a particular character was lying and scheming. I explained the twist that was coming (in the next chapter if I remember right), and the guy was like "Oh... That makes sense." But, he never continued. I wish people trusted me as much as they trusted GRRM, but it seems like if they don't go into reading it with that level of trust, it can't be earned because they will feel discouraged or frustrated when they realize your foreshadowing is above their head.

@ClaireYunFarronXIII

5 жыл бұрын

I am sorry about that... My readers though know that my inconsistencies are intentional, so I am blessed with smart readers. Here is some advice, fellow writer: Structure your books in the way that best communicates the type of narrative you want to express. See, if you want to tell a mystery story, do not use a god-like point-of-view structure, because the gaps will be obvious and seem unintentional. Force your readers into the mystery rather than helping them cower from above. Use 3rd person Limited, 2nd person, or 1st person Limited. If you are writing a mystery, set the tone of mystery and uncertainty right at the start so your readers feel a certain way. If you are writing a comedy, maybe your first line should be a joke or something humorous like, “Only evil people smoke. I bet Adoft Hitler smoked, cause he liked burning flesh!” Set the tone. I set the tone in my books early. For my main Fantasy Horror Mystery series I have been working on and released, the first chapter opens with three people being murdered in icy woodlands. The creature that killed them is described but not by name since the POV character did not know it by name. The chapter ends with only a paragraph of the creature's description, and cuts away when the POV character is killed. The rest of the first book, other characters are speculating what killed them. Some say a boar did it, others a bear, some said frost bite. There are no bodies. My readers were frightened because the thing that killed them looked nothing anyone can pinpoint a name to. Readers wonder what that thing is. In my third book I show more of these, but a massive number. About six established main characters are trapped in a blizzard and retreated to an abandoned fort. Long-story-short, a horde of those things storm the fort and kill them all... My point is, establish the type of narrative you want to explore by the start. Readers will know what to feel throughout. Establish the intentional inconsistencies. I do it by showing the relationships of the characters and the world and the events. Before my book's story opens, thirteen years ago the King was overthrown in a revolution. For the whole first book I very clearly tell readers the story through the perspective of the winners, even opening with a play reenacting the events in a comedic-like way, and the "evil king" is portrayed as this egotistical man-child who abuses his wife and has sex with his seven year old daughter. The new ruler - described as egotistical and prideful - says he beat the old king to death on this throne. This is all readers are told. This new king is NOT a POV character, so readers can't see whether or not he is lying or exaggerating. In book two readers are told that the old king had some of his kids hidden by the raging mob with a few loyal guards. We learn from a loyal guard that the old king was not beaten, but committed suicide... This guard IS a POV character, so readers are inside his head as he recalls the horrific event... Fill your novels with many obvious examples of your tone and story and mystery, your readers will look for more subtle ones within the text. My category of embedding mystery is in three layers: •Obvious Mysteries •Less Obvious Mysteries •Very Subtle Mysteries All three are parallel with each other. At first read, my readers are only drawn to the obvious because they are...obvious and interesting and glaring, so they are too invested in the obvious they miss the subtle. On second to third read they noticed the more subtle ones. That is what I see in my reviews of my main book series... I know doing all this is hard, but take it slow... Don't overwhelm yourself. Start with one or two subtleties, then add more with each project you write. What I said can apply to mystery, comedy, intentional deceptions on your part. Establish that type of tone and give it a pay off. Also, don't make the inconsistencies the driving narrative. Make something easy to follow the narrative, then have the inconsistencies the coating. Don't loose your core story in all the inconsistencies. Choose the right POV characters to tell the story. That is my advice to you, fellow writer. You don't have to follow it, but this is what I do and it has got me a strong community of readers who look deep into my novels and expect a lot from 19+ year old me. It is scary. Good luck!

@jacobsummers3441

5 жыл бұрын

Wow. Another one of those writers who accuse their readers to be dumb just because they didn't liked their work.

@averinus7706

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClaireYunFarronXIII thanks for the info.

@krzysztofpiasek5682

5 жыл бұрын

It might be your fault Colin. Don't fixate on mindset that it's a mistake of the reader when it very well might have been just you writing badly. You should talk more people into reading it and fix the book if there is a problem. And well, lets not even make a point that it's not a story for a debut...

@colinmurphy5508

5 жыл бұрын

@@krzysztofpiasek5682 I've won several awards for journalism and placed in a major international screenwriting competition, so, I think I know how to write pretty well. And, as I pointed out, EVERY example was intentional foreshadowing. The reader that time was my brother and somehow he didn't pick up on the fact that when a trusted, likable character is constantly saying things that don't perfectly line up with what the reader knows for sure, it's a major clue the character is not actually trustworthy. Other people have loved the story, but you really can't earn people's trust if you don't start out with it. People can get excited about an unseen plot twist, but people generally don't like feeling like someone they know from their own life can pull off a plot twist that is completely unforseen yet heavily foreshadowed, because it makes them feel stupid. The feeling that one has drastically underestimated a peer or family member is unpleasant for most.

Ah the Infamous Jeyne Westerling Hip size Conundrum! Lol.

@TheFiresloth

5 жыл бұрын

She's a squisher I tell you ! They're all squishers !

@telamere2043

5 жыл бұрын

That might be intentional in that she was swapped to protect rob's baby.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with her hip size?

I hope he knows that he is still a brilliant writer regardless of his mistakes. Also why can't he just find these mistakes and re-release a book? Similar to what Star Wars did with their movies and the various digital additions? I'm probably undercomplicating the feasibility of that, but that is one avenue that could be taken

"Becuase"

Commoooon Santa , fucking give us ze book

George did an ooopsie 🤣

Tyrion do be flipping and shit tho👏🏻🥵

I hope that Sansa's unreliable narration will serve some purpose though.

See how tolerate D&D are with their mistakes in the show.

You know you'll get a good answer when the person takes a good 5 seconds to reply

This should be interesting

His biggest mistake is not finishing the books before the show ended

Turn on subtitles at 0:28 and thank me later. LOL

@battledroid8999

5 жыл бұрын

They're actually correct. At first it is a horse and suddenly later it becomes a mare, so yeah, transexual horse

2:25 nononono this cant be, it cant be that phrase

A very tiny percentage of readers will catch minor mistakes. And they are people who did not throw the book off their balcony. They are people who bought the book and read it. That's important. It would take glaring inconsistencies to get them to stop reading or rail about it on the internet, that the author cheated them by doing sloppy work. You can't please everyone, and no work of art is ever perfect. But due diligence ups the percentage of satisfied customers, making that a worthy goal for authors. But mistakes, such as logistical incontinuities and chronological impossibilities, do have a price. Most of those are mild and not blatant, for if it were blatant, the author would have caught them already. They are forgetable and benign, especially since they likely don't even appear in the reader's consciousness. But what makes them insidious is that the reader's unconscious mind never misses a trick. It knows about all the mistakes. Nothing gets past it. But, it almost always never gets to the awareness of the conscious mind, bc reading fiction is much like a dream, and in dreams we only focus on what happens in the 'scene' right in front of us. We don't spend any effort in putting two and two together, at least not in the moment. The fictive dream is no different, and authors themselves go into the fictive dream when they read, edit, rewrite, and revise their own work, so it's easy to miss things, even for them. The end result is the reader has an 'inkling' that something doesn't add up. They often can't define that, but it is still there in their unconscious. The more of this that happens, the more of a 'weird feeling' the reader gets once they finish reading a novel and think about it. And that can affect how they rank it on Amazon or other sites. They know something is a bit off but don't know what that is, and a 4 rating can then become a 3. Will they buy that author's next novel? Probably, but mistakes make it less likely. So GRRM and all authors worth their salt try very diligently to not have such incontinuities in their work. Perfection is always the goal, even if unattainable. That said, it is surprising, if you take the time to investigate this, how many plot holes there are in almost everything. More in TV bc the deadline issues are more demanding. Even the best stuff has issues. When Director Howard Hawks and writer William Faulkner were nailing down the script for Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep', they had to call Chandler (who was under contract to a different studio at the time) to find out what was really going on in the part about the killer of Arthur Geiger who was also murdered, that same night. They asked 'Who murdered him'. Chandler thought for a minute, then said something to the effect of 'I have no idea'. He had a glaring plot hole, a thread in the story that was never resolved. If Chandler can do it and get away with it, and that book is highly revered and in the canon, that implies that quality will transcend little mistakes.

How about the whole young gryff plot? Either he's a real contender to the throne in which case he was introduced to late for anyone to really care about or he isn't a real contender in which case it's just filler that we still don't care about

1:23 cough guy

I always see him speaking, i never see him writing.

@exosproudmamabear558

5 жыл бұрын

I assume that would be pretty boring unless he has a weird habit when he is writing like sucking his toe thumb or something or the heart attack he is gonna get when he didn't finish the damn books on time

@aakanshagupta9906

5 жыл бұрын

@@exosproudmamabear558 Lmao . wtf XD

he avoided the question because it is more true than it appears. he is backed into a corner. that's why he took so long to answer and when he did he talked about nitpicky things. and thats why he can't finish the story.

I just found out that Arya and Jon can also Warg (like Bran). Thats some dumb shit we could all do without

@Kyoko1411

3 жыл бұрын

All Stark children are Wargs in the original books.

Just fix the errors and re-publish.

Just blame it on a maester

i forgive you george just hurry up and write a 2000 page winds of winter. no pressure

Sansa thinking she kissed the Hound. 🐶

@yutubes2465

5 жыл бұрын

Wait, what?

@brandonhargun4512

5 жыл бұрын

@@yutubes2465 sansa in the books imagined that the hound kissed her for some reason but he actually didn't and this sparked some questions on why she thinks that

@TheFiresloth

5 жыл бұрын

@@brandonhargun4512 : It's a beautiful case of unreliable narrator, especially considering how it's not made a big deal of.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

@@brandonhargun4512 I don't remember he didn't. When was this?

Martin is such an enigma when he talks

He forgot about bran ? The guy who had the greatest story ?

He made up for forgetting bran

when fantasy writers become drug lords

Father of the Realm.

geroge is actually boogie 2988 who came from the future

Dracarys!

Biggest mistake was "forgetting about the iron fleet" while in a state of total war ....

@Dutch_man20

Жыл бұрын

George didn’t write that.

Oh you Just Forget About Bran you son of a bitch they got to you

Based on this video title I was certain he was about to shit on Dumb and Dumber and himself for selling those hacks his material

Does the entirety of A Feast for Crows count?

Dude people really need to stop taking this mans time. All the hours he wasted doing interviews are hours that he could’ve spent recovering from all the writing he’s doing, of hours that he could’ve spent writing. This man is to big of a genius to have his time wasted answering questions for is

George kinda forgot to finish his series.

@jakehopkins6989

4 жыл бұрын

No he didn't. He's still working.

Now bran Is the king lol

Write the fucking books already. Your biggest mistake is leaving this franchise with its pants around its ankles by not finishing it. I don't even care anymore about the books because of this guy

Mistakes? Letting d&d in.

*cough* THE TV SHOW *cough*

... how pissed is he gonna be about the Starbucks Cup?

@jamesahern9864

5 жыл бұрын

Probably not at all

@michelvanderlinden8363

5 жыл бұрын

in that entire clusterfuck of an episode where logic dropped faster than Rhaegal, I'd say that cup is probably not even on his top 10 list of shit he's pissed about.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

That friggin' cup is the least problem of the last seasons

@MoffatLee

5 жыл бұрын

Why would the reveal of the true Azor Ahai piss him off?

_"We gotta have a zombie polar bear"._ - Can we blame Martin for that? Can we blame him for Season 7? The show is done, it's a mess.

@Goldenholla

5 жыл бұрын

Chris MCMLXXXII yeah we actually can because he wrote a zombie polar bear into the Battle of the Fist of the First Men that actually kills Thoren Smallwood I believe

@Coalemos

5 жыл бұрын

That's when the Game of Thrones show made sense. Season 7 was a fucking disaster. Episode 6 made no sense at all.

@jipped18

5 жыл бұрын

It's clear the quality has dropped from 10/10 roughly to 7/10 at best with season 7. Forced/rushed plots. Characters seeing each other and just brushing it off and not having good developing scenes. With that said, some of it is understandable but the lack of tactics and logic is inexcusable in my opinion. The show runners could have "upped" the numbers of soldiers for some of the armies because at this point, I feel like it won't make much sense who wins regardless either. The Jon/Dany love story is fine with me, but they better spend time developing them more because they are cardboard or basic chemistry at best.

@thingsicantfind9545

5 жыл бұрын

@@jipped18 id go 10/10 to a 3/10

@gaururahirkar

5 жыл бұрын

I think the show is great and also it should be a lot different than the book. When a movie/show tries to make it similar to the book, it just reminds you how its nothing compared to the book. That's why both the things should be considered distinct and comparison will only kill the superiority of either presentation. So I really think both things should be kept aside perceptually and comparitively too.

Nice dodge, George. I think we know why you bailed on the TV series after they caught up with the three books everyone likes.

@shotgundiplomat2406

5 жыл бұрын

What? He hasn't bailed. He's always there as a consultant and he writes at least one episode per season

@gatotsu2501

5 жыл бұрын

This was only true of the first four seasons. He’s barely been involved since then.

@shotgundiplomat2406

5 жыл бұрын

I guess so. I really don't get why he can't just sit his ass down and finish them. It took him 10 years between A Storm of Swords and A Dance with Dragons. Now it's been 10 years since A Dance with Dragons, so shouldn't we be expecting a release within the next year or so?

@gatotsu2501

5 жыл бұрын

It’s because contrary to his comments in this video, he totally did write himself into a corner.

@SuperCosty2010

5 жыл бұрын

@@shotgundiplomat2406 No fucking way George can be involved in this crap (7-8)

Video starts at 0:20

I look at him and I'm worried he is going to die before finishing the story

@Anna133199

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he doesn't look healthy, but the positive side is that he hasn't looked healthy in many years. Yet he's still with us! He might stay like this for another 20 years.

@martina-dd6vb

5 жыл бұрын

sanniyasin this is just rude. Would you like it if people were discussing your death under every video that has something to do with you? Have some respect..

@sanniyasin

5 жыл бұрын

@@martina-dd6vb respect?!? Respect has nothing to do with it. And yeah I do respect him because of his work. But it's also true that he is about to have a major heart attack and die before he finishes the story. So I suggest this fat fuck start exercising and spend more time on finishing the book on a timely manner. I'm his biggest fan though.

@martina-dd6vb

5 жыл бұрын

sanniyasin I don't know why you need to be so rude about it, yes he's fat but not all fat people have to die of a heart attack. He's been like this for a long time and I suppose he's doing just fine. I don't wanna argue with you, I just don't think it's nice how everyone talks about his death, like why is that necessary?

@sanniyasin

5 жыл бұрын

@@martina-dd6vb oh, I get it. You are one of those 300 pound SJW who argues fat people can be healthy and beautiful, let's all be accepting and nice..... wake up life is real. When you sell me a book with an unfinished story there is unwritten agreement that you would finish, let's say, in 20 years. Instead,again, this fat fuck just published another book, blood and fire. You know why, because he want to milk this cow as long as he can. So you shut the fuck up and let me comment whatever I feel like to express my disdain