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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I don't like it when an author starts a series without knowing where and when it will end; in this case, while I do have the first five books (I picked them up cheap, using Kobo codes), I'm a bit loth to start reading until he finishes it.
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Martin probably knows where the story will end, it's the part in the middle he lacks a plan for.
Martin originally planned for a five year gap in the story between book three and four. But when he started writing book four, he realized there were just too many cliffhangers that couldn't be adequately resolved by characters having flashbacks to the previous five years. So he dropped the five year gap, and progress on the storyline have been slow since that. I suspect that Martin is now struggling to adapt his original ideas about the end to that decision. (In particular, the five year gap would have allowed the children characters to grow up a little. Now he needs an ending where they're still kids.)