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So I was surprised that GRRM failed with him. When I was reading AFFC I thought that Darkstar was kinda lame.

When I first read that Darkstar was supposed to be cool I was quite surprised. This is a great series of posts about ASOIAF! In short, he worked on material during that year so count it.

GRRM did not fail during that time, he found a way that did not work and learned from it. Thomas Edison has a famous quote about inventing the light bulb that states “I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.” and I think that directly applies here. In my opinion that is a draft and counts a progress in writing. This implies that he tried to convey some of the story from Feast in flashback form and had issues doing so. “the main reason he struggled with the gap was that important events could not be related via flashback” Especially since we don’t know now how much other work he saved.Ī significant amount of the work he had done and what he identified as a big problem was relating events as flashbacks. We have proof from the man himself he saved work from that time so I don’t think it is fair to just not count that against his writing time. Of course, it has been revised, tightened, polished, and tweaked at every step of the way, so the version on my website has some significant differences from the "five year gap" version.” But it seemed more like an opening chapter than a closing one, so shortly before ADWD was published my editor and I agreed to remove it from DANCE and shift it over into WINDS.

Then it was going to be the concluding Arya chapter in A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. Then it was supposed to be a part of A FEAST FOR CROWS, after I abandoned the five year gap and split the books.

Originally, it was intended to be the opening Arya chapter after the infamous "five year gap," her first appearance in A DANCE WITH DRAGONS as initially conceived. The first draft was written more than a decade ago. “I mentioned that this chapter had quite a history. In a post last year GRRM details how he is using a chapter from those 500 pages. I have a couple of concerns with the elimination of April 2000 – Summer 2001 from the Writing Period fact section.