Don Roberto Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Well, the title sums it up. All three are named as authors in the cover posted on Not a Blog, and I'm wondering, how was it divided? Did George write the outlines, and Elio and Linda transformed that into the "maester writing to Robert" format? Or were each of them left with a specific part of the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatty Duelist Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Elio and Linda are actually the real writers and GRRM is piggybacking on their work. They write ASOIAF and if they don't then GRRM whips them until they bleed. Jk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 We wrote the initial outline and first draft. George filled most areas where there were major holes, and then some. In particular, the material related to the central and eastern regions are mostly his work, since that's just simply something we wouldn't know about, while stuff nearer to Westeros is more of a patchwork of us and GRRM, as he expanded on our draft. Outside of one extended piece, most of the Targaryen info is from us, synopsizing George's Targaryen history.Ancient history material is mostly us, with the exception of the material on the Rhoynar as he had a lot of new details there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Roberto Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Thanks for the info :) Sounds like "the tale grew in the telling" with this book as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 We were contracted for 50,000 words. We wrote... uh, maybe 600% more than that, of which over 150k will be in the book, and I have no idea how many tens of thousands are in the app (yes, the data that initially seeded the app was originally destined for the print book :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatty Duelist Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I hope you'll do natural resources as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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