The Complete [REDACTED] for NotACast Patrons! (Patreon)

Hello NAC patrons. It's Jeff, and I wanted to do something a little special for you all in putting this post up for you all about a week before I plan to publish it on my blog: bryndenbfish.substack.com as a way of saying thank you for supporting us! So, thanks and enjoy! And shhh.

Introduction

Almost six years ago, I put together a project known as the “Complete Notablog Resource” in which I, a normal, healthy adult, went through every single notablog post that George RR Martin ever wrote from 2006 to 2016, chronicling places where George talked about A Song of Ice and Fire in its various contexts. I also, as a functioning human being with no gnawing need for love, crawled through the comments section of every notablog post, looking for every scrap of info about ASOIAF that GRRM has ever uttered.

A few things have happened in the ASOIAF world since 2016, and I figure it’s time to update this thing and go through every single George RR Martin post and comment since January 2016 to the present day to comb the site for every scrap of information related to A Song of Ice and Fire.

What is George RR Martin’s notablog, you ask? It’s a blog, written by GRRM or occasionally by people who work for him (who George lovingly calls his “minions”) in which GRRM writes about pretty much every topic that interests him: Wild Cards, The New York Giants and Jets, politics, books he’s reading, movies or shows he’s watching. Once in a while GRRM talks about A Song of Ice and Fire: the novels, the novellas, the hit HBO TV Show Game of Thrones, the worldbook, Fire and Blood and the upcoming HBO show House of the Dragon.

I’ve grouped the posts by subjects such as:

• General Info
• A Feast for Crows
• A Dance with Dragons
• The Winds of Winter
• Dunk and Egg
• The World of Ice and Fire
• Fire and Blood, Volume One
• Game of Thrones
• House of the Dragon
• Odds and Ends

You will see that some notablog posts are found in multiple sections. That’s just GRRM’s style to talk about various projects he’s working on in one blog post. But to keep the information categorized correctly, I’ve annotated each note into separate sections.

Ultimately, my intent for this resource is to serve as the So Spake Martin for all of GRRM’s notablog entries and comments that are related to ASOIAF. I’ve bolded posts that are particularly interesting or are all about A Song of Ice and Fire rather than having a mention of the novels, novellas, worldbook, histories, TV Shows, etc.

So, without further ado, let’s delve into everything!

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General Info

• 7/2/2005: GRRM starts his notablog, declares that months may go by with no entries, but also gives the general scope of subjects:
• I will talk politics here, in future. I will talk about pizza here, in future. I will report on trips here, upload con reports, complain about stuff (there’s a lot to complain about in modern life, it seems to me, and we all need a place to vent). I will, in short, post whatever the hell I want to here. – Notablog, 7/2/2005
• GRRM writes all his work on DOS which he declares “stable as a rock.” – Gleep, 1/5/2007
• GRRM conducts a Second Life reading from ADWD as a version of Tyrion the Dwarf (Apparently, the creators of Second Life created a Second Life version of Ned Stark… with a removable head.)  Back to My First Life, 5/31/2007
• In a mock cage match, Jaime Lannister defeats Cthulu, but then he drops a potential hint for the future of Jaime’s story in facing Daenerys. – Hear Him Roar, 3/21/2010
• GRRM says he might add Ros, the red-headed prostitute into ASOIAF after liking the actress Esme Bianco. – GRRM comment, May Day, 5/1/2010
• GRRM dislikes fan-fiction. – Someone Is Angry on the Internet, 5/7/2010
• GRRM provides background information on the Lyseni accent sounds like. – GRRM Comment, A New Daenerys, 6/1/2010
• GRRM spends the night in a castle and the next day hawking leaving him with lots of ideas for Westeros. – A Hawking We Will Go, 10/20/2010
• GRRM has a lot of things to work out before getting to the end of ASOIAF. – I Want My MTV, 1/21/2010
• Only the novels are canon. – GRRM Comment, Game of Thrones RPG, 3/15/2011
• GRRM disputes notion that ASOIAF is “boys’ fiction.” – Boy Fiction, 4/16/2011
• GRRM declares need to say no to further commitments. – Venting, 2/25/2012
• GRRM likes to have several writing projects at the same time. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys on my Back, 6/26/2012
• Ulthos and Sothoryos are of ambiguous, but large, size. – GRRM Comment, Winter is Coming, 11/15/2012
• A prequel series from Robert’s Rebellion is unlikely. – GRRM Comment, Another Taste of Season Three, 1/30/2013 
• One for one comparisons between history and ASOIAF is an oversimplification. – GRRM Comment, Tuf Contest, 2/1/2013
• GRRM does not plan to describe cyvasse in detail, would rather it come out in suggestion and inference. – GRRM Comment, Swords and Daggers, 1/20/2013
• By the time ASOIAF ends, we’ll know everything about Robert’s Rebellion. – GRRM Comment, Tuf Returns, 2/10/2013
• GRRM is far more interested in character development than action. – GRRM Comment, Season Four!!!, 3/3/2013
• We will visit Casterly Rock in the books or show. – GRRM Comment, Season Four!!!, 4/11/2013
• “There’s a lot of Gatsby in Book-Littlefinger.” – GRRM Comment, The Great Gatsby, 5/20/2013
• GRRM begins using the phrase “The books are the books, and the show is the show” in response to complaints about the show catching him. – GRRM Comment, Headed for Conquest, 6/2/2013
• ASOIAF dragons have two legs. – GRRM Comment, Dany and the Dragons, 7/9/2013
• GRRM “tsk-tsk’s” commenter who wants Dany to die in the end. – GRRM Comment, Dany and the Dragons, 7/9/2013
• GRRM releases a picture of how the Iron Throne looks like in his mind. – The Real Iron Throne, 7/8/2013
• GRRM changes the order of his chapters around constantly. – GRRM Comment, Coming to San Diego 7/13/2013
• GRRM does not write the blurbs on Amazon. – GRRM Comment, Yadda Yadda Yadda, 7/31/2013
• Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros, but GRRM will have to do something about that. – Breaking Bad, 9/16/2013
• The show is not influencing GRRM in writing ASOIAF. – GRRM Comment, The Amazing Maisie, 1/22/2014
• Times have less specificity in Westeros as they do in the real world. – GRRM Comment, Comedy at the Cocteau, 4/9/2014
• Westeros is an analogue to the British Isles. – GRRM Comment, Great Times at the Jean Cocteau, 6/14/2014
• GRRM still hopes to finish ASOIAF in 7 novels. – GRRM Comment, Season 5 – The Wheel, 3/12/2015
• Divorce is pretty much unheard of in Westeros, but annulments can occur. – GRRM Comment, Home Again, 4/6/2015
• A Game of Thrones hits No 1 on the NY Times Best Seller 19 years after its publication. – We’re Number One, 7/1/2015
• GRRM uses notes and his memory to write ASOIAF. – GRRM Comment, Hugo Aftermath, 8/26/2015
• GRRM is not often inspired by real people or things that people say around him while writing ASOIAF. – GRRM Comment, Hugo Aftermath, 8/26/2015
• If there was a hypothetical movie to be made, GRRM would want a $300 million blowout ending to ASOIAF portrayed. – GRRM Comment, What Movie?, 10/1/2015
• GRRM’s least favorite questions besides “When is TWOW coming out?” is “Who is your favorite character?” – GRRM Comment, Cocteau Author Event, 10/29/2015
• There are holidays for each of the seven gods (or aspects of god) in the Faith of the Seven. – GRRM Comment, Books for Brains!, 10/31/2015
• Ty and Daniel won’t write in the ASOIAF universe. – GRRM Comment, ‘The Expanse’ Premiere, 12/1/2015
• ASOIAF and GoT will have similar endings for some character, but not for all. – GRRM Comment Last Year (Winds of Winter), 1/3/2016
• GRRM questions whether he’ll reveal the specific location of every castle in Westeros as there are hundreds of them. - GRRM Comment, What’s Up Doc, 2/10/2016
• GRRM reiterates he won’t write anything until he’s finished Winds and will only edit Wild Cards. - GRRM Comment, COLONY is Coming, 2/16/2016
• A potential crime novel set in Essos is a long ways off at best and would only be possibly written after ASOIAF is complete. - GRRM Comment, What They Edited Once More, 2/14/2016
• Not every ambiguous comment GRRM makes refers to TWOW. - GRRM Comment, See You in Roanoke, 2/22/2016
• The change in seasons is based in fantasy, not science-fiction. GRRM Comment, Me and Ryan, 3/5/2016
• GRRM isn’t a melody guy for his songs in ASOIAF. Just a words guy. - GRRM Comment, Odds and Ends, 3/7/2016
• Paul McCartney did not inspire the Blue Bard character. - GRRM Comment, Not Dead Yet, 3/9/2016
• Jaime and Brienne fight in the 2016 Suvudu Cage Match. - Danger! Peril! Death!, 3/7/2016
• They survive that round and are onto the next round. - Live to Fight Another Day, 3/14/2016
• Asha Greyjoy is not lesbian or bisexual (unless GRRM is forgetting something). - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/11/2016
• GRRM isn’t interested in writing a journey of how ASOIAF was written. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/11/2016
• Present day politics don’t inspire ASOIAF. His influences are medieval and ancient history. - GRRM Comment, Last Call (Almost), 4/12/2016
• Rene Girard and his Mimetic Theory are not inspirations for the Others. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/15/2016
• Valyrian steel swords weren’t exactly common before the Doom of Valyria, but there were more of them before the start of the main series. More have been lost or destroyed since the Doom. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/17/2016
• Ted Nasmith’s illustrations from the 2011 Ice & Fire Calendar are the most accurate renditions of the castles of Westeros. - GRRM Comment, This Week at the JCC, 4/18/2016
• GRRM didn’t devote any thought to spelling Jon Snow’s name when he came up with it in 1991. - GRRM Comment, A Response to John C. Wright, 5/2/2016
• GRRM didn’t know that “Shae” in German and spoken in a Bavarian accent means “Beautiful.” - GRRM Comment, The Replacements, 5/7/2016
• Arianne Martell has curves, is not anorexic but is not ‘heavyset’ or a ‘whale.’ - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/11/2016
• Littlefinger was not inspired by Piero di Medici or someone else from the di Medici Family. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/11/2016
• Strong Belwas will not be a POV Character in ASOIAF. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/12/2016
• Valyrian Steel can be honed to a sharper edge and stays sharp longer than regular swords. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/13/2016
• Geoge has never thought about what a follower of the Faith of the Seven is called. - GRRM Comment, A Few Quick Thoughts, 5/24/2016
• In response to a question about the canonicity of House Forrester from the Telltale Game of Thrones game, GRRM states that only the books are canon. - GRRM Comment, Pat Conroy Literary Center, 6/17/2016
• The Prince or Princess of Dorne wears something crown-like on formal occasions. - GRRM Comment, The Evening Star Rises, 6/29/2016
• Dragons in ASOIAF have front legs as wings like bats and pterosaurs. - GRRM Comment, Awards, Awards, 7/15/2016
• On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of A Game of Thrones, GRRM publishes a retrospective. - The Long Game of Thrones, 8/1/2016
• George doesn’t like to talk about his writing process until the writing is complete. - GRRM Comment, The Long Game … Of Thrones, 8/3/2016
• GRRM doesn’t care about the different pronunciations of names/places in ASOIAF. - GRRM Comment, Signed Books at the JCC, 10/12/2016
• Stannis had honor while Donald Trump had none. GRRM thinks the best ASOIAF equivalent of Trump is Joffrey. - GRRM Comment, A Simple Observation, 11/4/2016
• Doctor Strangelove was not an inspiration for Bran Stark. - GRRM Comment, Odds, Ends, Fun Stuff, 11/11/2016
• We’ll learn more about the Order of the Green Hand in future books. - GRRM Comment, Five in a Row, 11/24/2016
• GRRM suggested that Jonah Nolan bring about a Westerosworld as a model for the Medieval World of the original Westworld movie. - GRRM Comment, Some Hugo Picks, 12/6/2016
• GRRM would put Strong Belwas in the Offensive Line of the New York Jets. - GRRM Comment, End of the Season, 1/4/2017
• GRRM would like to write more stories set in Westeros after ASOIAF is completed. - GRRM Comment, Bundling the Wild Cards, 1/10/2017
• The Deep Ones won’t rise to trouble Westeros, and none of his characters will make it to Carcossa in Essos. - GRRM Comment, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, 1/31/2017
• GRRM has no plans to turn the world of Ice and Fire into a shared universe. - GRRM Comment, Hugo Thoughts: Best Professional Artist, 1/31/2017
• The Iron Islands do not shun iron armor. It’s in their name. - GRRM Comment, 2018 SoI&F Calendar Artist Eric Velhagen #GRRMinion, 3/7/2017
• The plan is still for seven books for ASOIAF. - GRRM Comment, 2018 SoI&F Calendar Artist Eric Velhagen #GRRMinion, 3/7/2017
• GRRM sarcastically calls Westeros the happiest place on earth. - GRRM Comment, Hap, Leonard, and Joe, 3/17/2017
• George finds plot holes all the time when he’s writing ASOIAF. - GRRM Comment, A Sense of Wonder, 4/12/2017
• Maesters would refer to their world as “earth”. - GRRM Comment, About Those Spinoffs …, 5/15/2017
• Neil Gaiman is not assisting GRRM with writing ASOIAF. - GRRM Comment, About Those Spinoffs…, 5/15/2017
• GRRM pronounces Aenys as “A-niss” rather than “A-knees” but doesn’t care how the name is pronounced. - GRRM Comment, Off to Angel Fire, 6/22/22017
• Westeros and Wild Cards are different universes. - GRRM Comment, Some Odds, Some Ends, 6/24/2017
• Lenny from Of Mice and Men is not a conscious inspiration for Hodor. - GRRM Comment, Who Fears Death?, 7/12/2017
• GRRM posts a cryptic blog post with a picture of Valyria, an Ironborn sigil and a tag of “ASOIAF”. - Alas, Valyria. 7/12/2017
• Westeros is an imaginary continent not from the Earth’s prehistory. It has whatever plants and animals GRRM wanted to put into it. - GRRM Comment, Gobble, Gobble, 11/27/2017
• GRRM considers A Song of Ice and Fire to be one long story and hopes to publish it in seven volumes. - Hugo Nominations Open, 2/7/2018
• Notablog moves from livejournal to GRRM’s site. - NOT A BLOG IS MOVING AWAY,  4/13/2018
• We won’t learn much about the pre-Conquest Targaryens in Fire and Blood, but we may learn about them in future books or TV shows. - GRRM Comment, Time to Read, 5/4/2018
• Daenerys will not burn the Water Gardens. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• GRRM claims that Bantam Books added the part about F&B containing the origin of Dany’s dragon eggs, and it didn’t come from him. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/1/2018
• People may be able to extrapolate answers and develop theories about Valyria or Dany’s dragon eggs from F&B. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• Robb Stark almost certainly loved Jon more than Theon. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• GRRM is not familiar with most crazy fan theories as he stopped reading fan boards many years ago as he didn’t want them to influence his work. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• The Rhoyne River is wider than the Mississippi River. - GRRM Comment, New Wild Cards Story on Tor.com, 10/25/2018
• Rhaegar Targaryen is not an analogue to anyone from history. - GRRM Comment, I’m Number 48, 11/3/2018
• GRRM announces the publication of the illustrated edition of A Clash of Kings. - Twenty Years?, 12/19/2018
• By Late 2019, GRRM’s projects are TWOW, ADOS, D&E and F&B, Vol 2. Emmy Times Four, 10/2/2019
• Folio Society Edition of A Clash of Kings announced. - The Folio Society Does It Again, 5/15/2020
• Twenty-year anniversary of A Storm of Swords. - The Anniversary of the Storm, 11/4/2020Subscribe now

A Feast for Crows

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• GRRM reports that A Feast for Crows has hit #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List and #2 on the USA Today Bestseller List. – Notablog, 11/25/2005
• A Feast for Crows becomes one of the finalists for a Hugo Award. – An Honor Just to be Nominated, 3/22/2006
• GRRM switched the POVs around for the kingsmoot chapters. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/11/2016
• GRRM has no plans to release a combined ebook for Feast/Dance. - GRRM Comment, A Storm of Swords: Enhanced Edition Available on IBooks December 15th, 12/16/2016

A Dance with Dragons

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• GRRM talks about the Hugos, but says that A Dance with Dragons is his number 1 priority. – Remember the Hugo, 3/7/2006
• GRRM begins revising Jon chapters for A Dance with Dragons to make them stronger - This, That and the Other Thing, 3/28/2006
• GRRM works on a new POV character set in Old Volantis (Ed Note: Probably Quentyn Martell). – Home Alone, 5/13/2006
• GRRM reports that other projects to include home renovations have caused any writing for ADWD to “be a wash.” – Off to Worldcon, 8/17/2006
• A Dance with Dragons is GRRM’s No 1 priority, and he’ll be pushing hard to get it out by the end of the year. – Home for the Holidays, 10/17/2006
• A Dance with Dragons will not be done by the end of 2006, but GRRM is going to use the time in between conventions to work on it. – Good News, Bad News, 12/5/2006
• GRRM realizes that half of A Feast for Crows was out as a sample or read at a convention and doesn’t want to do the same for A Dance with Dragons. – Wild Cards Returns, 12/11/2006
• GRRM revises an older chapter, starts a new chapter and makes edits to other chapters for ADWD. - A Good Day’s Dancing, 4/21/2007
• GRRM’s good writing spell for ADWD ends. – This and That and t’other Thing, 4/27/2007
• Writing for ADWD is going much slower than anticipated, but he’s completed a troublesome chapter. However, he’s considering cancelling his appearance at WorldCon in order to finish ADWD. – The Only Living Boy in New York, 6/25/2007
• GRRM reads the ADWD Prologue (Varamyr), but after receiving feedback decides that he needs to revise the chapter a bit: – Back from Indianapolis, 7/11/2007
• GRRM expresses strong frustration with fans complaining that ADWD is unfinished. – GRRM Comment, Back from Indianapolis, 7/11/2007
• GRRM finishes revising the ADWD Prologue. – Busy Week, 7/17/2007
• GRRM still working on ADWD with a gif of a writer committing suicide against his keyboard. – A Dance with Dragons, 8/29/2007
• GRRM is sad at missing WorldCon to “finish” ADWD. – Missing Worldcon, 9/1/2007
• GRRM is writing a lot of Tyrion chapters. – Highs and Lows, 10/22/2007
• GRRM talks why the writing is slow for ADWD. More importantly, he talks about a Tyrion chapter in which he meets the Shrouded Lord. He ends up deleting this chapter. – GRRM comment, Notablog, Highs and Lows, 10/23/2007
• GRRM reads the ADWD Prologue at the World Fantasy Convention, likes it a lot better this go-around. – Home from WFC, 11/16/2007
• GRRM is still writing Tyrion chapters, finishes one and then cryptically decides that he’s going to write Tyrion out of the scene entirety. (Ed. Note: Guessing Jon Connington’s “Lost Lord” chapter?) – This, That, and t’Other Thing, 12/12/2007
• ADWD is not done, but GRRM will put up a new sample on his website at the end of the year. – Goodbye, 2007, 12/31/2007
• GRRM is writing Dany and Bran chapters. He finds Bran chapters very hard to write. – Another Month Rushes By, 1/27/2008
• Marc Fishman will illustrate a limited illustrated edition of A Dance with Dragons. – And Speaking of Subterranean, 3/5/2008
• GRRM trying to finish ADWD by June 2008. – GRRM Comment, And Speaking of Subterranean, 3/6/2008
• GRRM completes a Bran chapter that took him 6 years to finish. – One More Chapter Done, 3/15/2008
• GRRM constantly revises his chapters. – GRRM Comment, One More Chapter Done, 3/16/2008
• GRRM found himself surprised by the direction of the Bran chapter. GRRM Comment, One More Chapter Done, 3/16/2008
• GRRM reveals covers for ADWD (Ed. Note: The covers change later on) – DANCE Gets Covered, 3/17/2008
• GRRM will be working on ADWD with hopes of delivering the completed manuscript by Summer 2008. – Home Again, 4/13/2008
• GRRM admits he’s “pretty far behind.” – Better, 5/10/2008
• GRRM finishes an Arya and a Sansa chapter. (Ed. Note: This Sansa chapter later becomes TWOW, Alayne I) He’s also making progress on Daenerys. – Home Alone, 5/23/2008
• ADWD is not complete as GRRM embarks on European tour. – Made it to Europe, 6/25/2008
• ADWD is late, and GRRM is frustrated that people are making off-topic comments about it on non-ADWD notablog posts. – A Gentle Reminder, 9/19/2008
• GRRM writes a mega update on A Dance with Dragons. - A Dance With Dragons, 2/19/2009
• ADWD is not done:
• Good progress early in 2008, less so later in the year.
• Sansa moved to TWOW:
• There are issues with the narrative (Ed. Note: Meereenese Knot most likely)
• GRRM wants to finish by Summer 2009
• GRRM writes a rebuke to his detractors. – To My Detractors, 2/19/2009
• GRRM is writing on a unknown POV character he’s hinted at previously (Ed. Note: Probably Quentyn Martell) – Thanks, 2/20/2009
• GRRM’s writing pace picks up. – Feeling Feisty, 5/17/2009
• GRRM reports making more progress on ADWD, finishing 3 chapters, but mentions the Meereenese Knot for the First Time on his notablog. – Guarded Optimism, 6/22/2009
• GRRM is working on the Meereenese Knot. – Home Again, 7/17/2009
• GRRM will probably read a ADWD chapter at Bubonicon. – Bubonicon, 8/27/2009
• GRRM resumes work on the Meereenese Knot, re-arranging the order of chapters and weaving them back in together. – Dancing, 9/3/2009
• GRRM reports that the Meereenese Knot could not be broken. – Jots and Niggles, 9/9/2009
• GRRM shifts focus from Meereen and completes arc for a character who only has two chapters in ADWD. (Ed Note: Probably Cersei, though possibly Arya) – A Smidge of Progress, 9/11/2009
• GRRM makes significant progress on ADWD, completing a Jon Snow chapter, passing the 1100 manuscript page mark. – Dance, Dance, Dance, 10/6/2009
• GRRM will do a reading at FargoCon (Ed Note: It’ll be “The Merchant’s Man”) – See You in Fargo, 10/14/2009
• GRRM updates on the Meereenese Knot – Dancing, 1/28/2010
• GRRM refuses to provide an update on when it will be done due to previous delays. – GRRM Comment, Dancing, 1/29/2010
• GRRM has a good day writing about Jon Snow. – A Good Day, With Snow, 1/29/2010
• GRRM upset that people think that because he had a good day writing he is done ADWD. – No, No, No, 1/30/2010
• GRRM completes a Jon Snow chapter, heading to Meereen. – Don’t Go Wiggy on Me, 1/31/2010
• Bunch of chapters left to go, but fewer than before. – GRRM comment, Don’t Go Wiggy On Me, 2/1/2010
• GRRM working on Victarion and Arianne chapters (Ed Note: Arianne chapters later moved to TWOW). – Snowing in Santa Fe, 2/3/2010
• GRRM muses that he might have to shift some chapters to TWOW as he’s near 1200 manuscript pages. – GRRM Comment, Snowing in Santa Fe, 2/3/2010
• GRRM says that people might be able to read AFFC/ADWD if they can figure out the order. – GRRM Comment, Not Done Yet, 2/12/2010
• GRRM finishes one chapter but has to make minor revisions to another chapter finished the week before. (Ed Note: This could be filed under TWOW as these chapters are likely TWOW, Arianne I & II) – Not Done Yet, 2/14/2010
• GRRM makes significant progress on ADWD, finishes ADWD, The Iron Suitor, grapples with the chronology and whether to shift chapters to TWOW. - Not Done Yet, 2/15/2010
• GRRM does not count fragmentary or partials in his manuscript count. – GRRM Comment, Not Done Yet, 2/16/2010
• GRRM wishes he could drop a hydrogen bomb on Meereen. – Wolves in the Night, 2/19/2010
• The Meereenese Knot begins to fray. – The Meereenese Knot…, 2/26/2010
• GRRM wishes his characters could click their heels and say, “There’s no place like King’s Landing.” – GRRM Comment, The Meereenese Knot…, 2/28/2010
• ADWD has 1311 completed manuscript pages. – The Green Light, 3/2/2010
• No podcasts for GRRM until after ADWD is released much as he did for AFFC (Ed. Note: I don’t think he did any) – A Blast from the Past, 3/5/2010
• GRRM is sick and vows to kill someone in ADWD. – Grey Days, 3/18/2010
• Writing on ADWD continues. – Coming Soon to a Theater Near You, 4/27/2010
• GRRM records a podcast on ADWD, TMK and GoT for Dragon Page. – Can’t Shut Me Up, 4/28/2010
• Progress being made on “King Kong.” – More Odds, More Ends, 5/7/2010
• Wrestling with Kong. – Freaky Monkey Bites the Dust, 5/24/2010
• Struggling to write the epilogue, shifts focus to a Tyrion chapter. – Stuff and Nonsense, 6/16/2010
• The timeline for ADWD continues to drive GRRM mad. – GRRM comment, Stuff and Nonsense, 6/16/2010
• GRRM hopes that ADWD is the hardest book he’ll ever write. – Dancing in Circles, 6/27/2010
• “Pat’s died a quick death.” (Ed. Note: This refers to Pat from Pat’s Fantasy List Blog who GRRM featured in ADWD as Ser Patrek of King’s Mountain who dies in ADWD, Jon XIII) – Snowbound, 7/21/2010
• GRRM hints about writing Ironborn and Jon Snow in ADWD. – The Only Living Boy in New York, 7/25/2010
• “Still a lot of story to tell.” – Lights, Camera, Action, 7/26/2010
• GRRM finishes a chapter on “Fred” (Perhaps Theon Greyjoy), still has one more chapter to go for Fred. – A Few Odds, Some Ends, 7/30/2010
• With the one hundred manuscript pages cut to TWOW, GRRM thinks that ASOS will still be longer than ADWD. – GRRM Comment, Dancing, 8/1/2010
• GRRM completes his last Fred chapter for ADWD, still working on “Barney” (Ed Note: Barristan?) – Dancing, 8/1/2010
• GRRM is having a good day writing a new POV Character who will slice through the Meereenese Knot (Ed Note: Barristan) – August, 8/4/2010
• GRRM won’t talk about the Meereenese Knot until after ADWD is released. – GRRM comment, August, 8/4/2010
• GRRM wraps up “Yogi” (Quentyn?) for ADWD, has eight POV characters complete, the Meereenese Knot is nearly cut. – Dancing, 8/7/2010
• GRRM hints at completing ADWD, The Dragontamer given the Tattered Prince quote he uses in a comment. – GRRM Comment, Dancing, 8/8/2010
• GRRM states that there are two more book after ADWD (he hopes). – GRRM Comment, Three More for the Show, 8/10/2010
• GRRM rotates ADWD, Jon I in as his current sample. – Sample, Sample, 8/10/2010
• GRRM considers editing Jon I after receiving fan feedback. – GRRM Comment, Sample, Sample, 8/10/2010
• GRRM working on Jon, Asha and Theon chapters in ADWD, finishing chapters, revising and then re-revising them. – Snow, 12/16/2010
• GRRM wrestling with a pair of Krakens (Ed Note: Probably Theon and Asha, perhaps Victarion), hints of writing either a Bran or Jon chapter after he finishes writing the Ironborn. – Snowstorm on Skull Island, 2/15/2011
• GRRM announces Publication Date for ADWD for July 12, 2011, but hes’ still working on ADWD. – DRAGON TIME, 3/3/2011
• Timeline for ADWD will extend past AFFC. – GRRM Comment, DRAGON TIME, 3/4/2011
• Current page count (as of March 2011) is over 1500 manuscript pages, but GRRM has more in partials or drafts. – GRRM Comment, Good News for Old Blighty, 3/4/2011
• Roy Dotrice will narrate ADWD. – Roy Sets a Record, 3/11/2011
• GRRM completes an Ironborn POV, but then works on another. Total manuscript page count for ADWD is now 1551 MS pages. – He’s STILL a King in This World, 3/12/2011
• Two short chapters for ADWD complete, manuscript page count over 1600. – KONG, 3/27/2011
• Chapter on Meereen finished. – Watch the Skies!, 3/30/2011
• GRRM finishes ADWD. – Twas Beauty…, 3/27/2011
• GRRM copywriting and proofing ADWD at Bantam with Anne Groell. – In the Apple, 4/30/2011
• GRRM finishes copywriting and proofing ADWD. – Last Day in New York, 5/4/2011
• ADWD tour date released. – Taking the Dance on the Road, 5/7/2011
• New UK cover for ADWD. – New Cover for the UK, 5/12/2011
• GRRM announces that Barristan Selmy will become a POV character in ADWD. – The Wolf and the Lion, 5/13/2011
• GRRM releases a mega-update on how ADWD was written. – Talking About Dance, 5/19/2011
• GRRM finished the book but continued work on it through his editors and in creating the appendix.
• The final draft is 1510 manuscript pages, but it was larger before the edits and cuts to TWOW
• By the end of the writing, ADWD was nearly 1700 manuscript pages (even after cutting 100 manuscript pages to TWOW in 2010). GRRM edits out about 80 pages through a process he calls “sweat” and cuts chapters to TWOW
• A “sweat” is when GRRM goes through each line of the book, cutting unnecessary words and fat and makin the manuscript stronger.
• ADWD contains 73 chapters with almost half of all chapters containing the exploits of Tyrion, Dany and Jon Snow
• Some characters from AFFC will reappear towards the end of the book
• Lots of new POV characters
• The problem with the book was partly due to the Meereenese Knot which was resolved when GRRM introduced a new POV character (Barristan)
• GRRM hadn’t hidden the book away or finished it years ago.
• GRRM sent manuscript partials to his editors throughout the years to the tune of:
• January 2006: 542 manuscript pages
• February 2007: 472 manuscript pages (GRRM unwrote nearly 70 pages)
• March 2008: 592 manuscript pages
• May 2008: 684 manuscript pages
• December 2008: 774 manuscript pages
• September 2009: 998 manuscript pages
• January 2010: 1,038 manuscript pages
• June 2010: 1,028 manuscript pages (GRRM cut 100 pages before this batch was sent)
• August 2010: 1,332 manuscript pages
• December 2010: 1,412 manuscript pagesMarch 2011: 1,571 manuscript pagesApril 2011: Almost 1,700 manuscript pages before cuts to TWOW/sweat/edits
• GRRM thinks the book is a lot better for all of the work he put into writing it, and he’s getting start on Winds.
• Amazon breaks street date for ADWD and ships the book early in Germany. – Amazon Screws the Pooch, 6/29/2011
• Editors tried to cut down GRRM’s use of “must needs”, but he likes the phrase and inserted it back into ADWD. – GRRM Comment, Back in Santa Fe, 7/18/2011 
• GRRM defends his descriptions from ADWD, calling them “STORY.” – GRRM Comment, Back in Santa Fe, 7/19/2011
• GRRM released limited illustrated ADWD illustrated by Marc Fishman. – The Dragons Dance Again, 11/1/2012
• Paperback of ADWD set to be released on 10/29/2013 – GRRM Comment, Coming Next Month, 2/13/2013
• Tyrion Shrouded Lord Chapter cut from ADWD may be published one day, but only after Winds and Dream have been published. - GRRM Comment, Who Fears Death?, 7/11/2017
• GRRM still unsure what to do about that Tyrion Shrouded Lord chapter. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018Subscribe now

Dunk and Egg

• A big chunk of the next D&E novella (The Mystery Knight) is already completed. – Year’s End 2005, 3/3/2006
• GRRM is working on The Mystery Knight for a change of pace from ADWD. – Another Month Rushes By, 1/27/2008
• The Mystery Knight publication date announced to be March 2010. – Coming in March, 9/17/2009
• GRRM gives publication date of March 16 for Warriors, links to early reviews of the anthology. – The Return of Dunk and Egg, 1/21/2010
• GRRM links to sample of The Mystery Knight – WARRIORS Excerpts, 2/12/2010
• Warriors, ft The Mystery Knight goes on sale. – On Sale Today, 3/16/2010
• GRRM hopes to bring The Mystery Knight to comic form in the future. – GRRM Comment, Ice & Fire Comes to Comics, 2/2/2011
• Mad Danelle Lothston might be seen again. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys off my Back, 6/8/2011
• GRRM works on D&E #4 and plans to have the fourth Dunk & Egg Novella in The Dangerous Women anthology. – Monkeys on my Back, 6/23/2012
• Given the number of novellas GRRM is planning, he’s planning on collecting all of his D&E novellas into three volumes. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys on my Back, 6/27/2012
• The fourth D&E will not be called The She-Wolves of Winterfell or The Wolf-Women of Winterfell – GRRM Comment, The Mystery Knight Rides Again, 10/28/2012
• GRRM postpones D&E #4. – GRRM Comment, A Dangerous Delivery, 1/23/2013
• HBO & GRRM are discussing adapting Dunk and Egg to the small screen. – GRRM Comment, Tuf Returns, 2/10/2013
• Comic versions of The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword come back into print. – Dunk and Egg Return to Comics, 7/9/2013
• D&E #4 won’t be completed until after TWOW is done. – GRRM Comment, A Taste of Danger, 7/24/2013
• GRRM does not have a title for D&E #4. – GRRM Comment, The Princess and the Queen, 7/31/2013
• No new information on D&E #4. – GRRM Comment, Season Four Trailer, 1/16/2014
• The Sworn Sword comic returns to print at last. – Dunk & Egg Conquer Kindle, 2/12/2014
• GRRM officially announces A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and adds that Gary Gianni will illustrate the book. – Dunk and Egg, 4/15/2014
• GRRM reveals A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ cover and release date. – Dunk & Egg Ride Again, 2/25/2014
• GRRM says he still need to write D&E #4 (Ed Note: Unclear whether GRRM scrapped his partial manuscript from 2010) – GRRM Comment, Dunk & Egg Ride Again, 2/7/2015
• GRRM reveals the names of the D&E novellas he has planned for the future. – GRRM Comment, How Many Seasons?, 3/19/2015
• Release day for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. – Dunk & Egg Are HERE, 10/6/2015
• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms debuts at Number 2 in Hardcover books. – Hedge Knight in the Lists, 10/16/2015
• D&E #4 is not finished and won’t be worked on until TWOW is complete. – GRRM Comment, Hedge Knight in the Lists, 10/16/2015
• GRRM now unsure if he’ll pick up D&E #4 after finishing TWOW. – GRRM Comment, ‘The Expanse’ Premiere, 12/2/2015
• GRRM might touch on Mad Danelle Lothston in a future D&E novella, but no promises. – GRRM Comment, More Hugo Musings, 12/13/2015
• GRRM says “no comment” to a question about the Ghost of High Heart and Summerhall. - GRRM Comment, Me and Ryan, 3/6/2016
• No Dunk and Egg until TWOW is done. - GRRM Comment, Black Friday Books, 11/28/2016
• Graphic novel of The Mystery Knight is announced. - Here Comes The Mystery Knight, 12/16/2016
• GRRM is not having discussions with HBO about adapting Dunk and Egg or the Ninepenny Kings to the small screen. - GRRM Comment, March Madness, 3/19/2017
• German illustrated version of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is released. - For My German Fans, 7/11/2017
• Ser Duncan the Tall is not a tribute to Dave Duncan. - GRRM Comment, Rolling on the River, 11/22/2017
• GRRM seems surprised that the last Dunk and Egg novella was published eight years prior to 2018. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• George wants to do more Dunk and Egg, but he’s not sure when or how he’ll fit it into his schedule. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• The Dunk and Egg Winterfell book is not in any form yet. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018

The World of Ice and Fire, The Princess and the Queen and the Rogue Prince

• Justin Sweet does preliminary artistic work for TWOIAF. – Busy, Busy, Busy, 4/6/2011
• GRRM reveals that TWOIAF will have histories and family trees. – GRRM Comment, Talking with Canadians, 3/18/2012
• Concordance for TWOIAF is being written. – Odds and Ends, 3/12/2012
• GRRM gives a blurb on what TWOIAF will be about. – Monkeys on my Back, 6/23/2011
• Narrative cheats will be used while writing TWOIAF to avoid spoilers or glaring errors. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys on my Back, 6/26/2012
• TWOIAF will stand on its own but might be helpful for TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys on my Back, 8/20/2012
• GRRM working hard on TWOIAF, thinking some of his pieces will become novellas in their own right (Ed. Note: He’s right) – Writing, 10/19/2012
• To avoid spoilers for ASOIAF and D&E, George is having to dance around issues, and the maester may have to spill ink over the section about Summerhall – GRRM Comment, Writing, 8/21/2012
• 103 manuscript pages complete on the dance of the dragons alone. (Ed. Note: Part of this becomes The Princess and the Queen) – Still Writing, 9/15/2012
• The Princess and the Queen is officially announced for the Dangerous Women anthology. – A Dangerous Delivery, 1/22/2013
• TWOIAF is coming along. Soon GRRM hopes to have only Wild Cards and The Winds of Winter to work on. – GRRM Comment, Back from LA, 6/19/2013
• The Princess & the Queen was cut from 80,000 words to 30,000 words. – GRRM Comment, Con Time!, 8/18/2013
• The full text of The Princess and the Queen will be released in the GRRMillion (Later re-titled Fire and Blood, Volume One) – The Princess and the Queen, 8/31/2013
• GRRM won’t write Fire and Blood until after TWOW, D&E and ADOS. – GRRM Comment, The Dangerous Women, 12/7/2013
• No talk of adapting The Princess and the Queen by Dan and David. – GRRM Comment, Season One…, 1/28/2014
• GRRM completes his Ironborn section for TWOIAF and finishes his last piece of writing for TWOIAF. – Farewell to the Iron Islands, 3/8/2014
• GRRM announces a new novella called The Rogue Prince in the Rogues anthology. – The Rogues are Coming, 3/12/2014
• Aegon the Conqueror sample chapter released. – Aegon is Coming, 4/16/2014
• Cover art reveal for TWOIAF. – A Brave New World, 5/7/2014
• New sample on the history of the Rhoynar entitled “The Ten Thousand Ships” released. – Ten Thousand Ships, 5/20/2014
• GRRM explains the writing process for TWOIAF, says that he had to cut 200,000 words. – GRRM Comment, Ten Thousand Ships, 5/20/2014
• Rogues is published. – Day of the Rogues, 6/17/2014
• Published version of The Rogue Prince is shorter than the original version. – GRRM Comment, Day of the Rogues, 6/18/2014
• TWOIAF released on 10/28/2014. – A WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE, 10/28/2014
• TWOIAF debuts at #2 in the US and the UK. – Worldbook Rides High, 11/9/2014
• GRRM releases an extended chapter on the Westerlands. – Come to the Westerlands, 3/26/2015
• GRRM thinks the mystery surrounding the letter Nymor of Dorne sent Aegon the Conqueror is more fun than the solution. - GRRM Comment, Who Fears Death, 7/12/2017Subscribe now

Fire and Blood, Volume One

• By 2016, GRRM has hundreds of thousands of words of fake history ready to go for his complete history of the Targaryen kings. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/16/2016
• The fake history accounts of the Targaryen kings will be more detailed from TWOIAF when they come out in Fire and Blood. - GRRM Comment, Baltimore and NYC, 6/14/2016
• GRRM Announces That Sons of the Dragon (a chapter from Fire and Blood, Volume One) will be published in The Book of Swords anthology. - A Bit More (Fake) History, 1/31/2017
• Sons of the Dragon publication date announced to be October 10, 2017 in the The Book of Swords anthology. - The Swords Are Drawn, 7/22/2017
• Book is about Aenys I and Maegor the Cruel and hasn’t been published before.
• GRRM calls the GRRMarillion Fire and Blood for the first time and says he has enough material for two volumes.
• Volume One will cover Aegon’s Conquest through Aegon III and is largely written.
• Volume Two will cover Aegon III to Robert’s Rebellion and is mostly unwritten.
• Fire and Blood, Volume One will probably be published in late 2018 or early 2019.
• Sons of the Dragon is published. - The Swords Are Drawn, 10/10/2017
• Fire and Blood, Volume One should be completed soon, but Volume Two is hardly begun. - GRRM Comment, Hugo Nominations Open, 2/11/2018
• Fire and Blood will be illustrated. - GRRM Comment, Hugo Nominations Open, 2/14/2018
• GRRM still working on the Fire and Blood artwork. - GRRM Comment, Wild Cards Artwork, 3/5/2018
• Fire and Blood is completed and delivered. - Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/25/2018
• It will be 989 manuscript pages covering Aegon I to Aegon III
• There will be more to cover by Archmaester Gyldayn in Volume Two a few years down the road
• The book will be illustrated throughout
• The book derived from the sidebars that GRRM originally intended to write for The World of Ice and Fire, but the sidebars got way too long, and they were pulled from the worldbook for F&B.
• The book is not a novel. It is “imaginary history.”
• F&B will be published on November 20th, 2018.
• Some of the material in F&B, Vol 1 is new material. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/25/2018
• GRRM fixed errors from Sons of the Dragon for Fire and Blood, Volume One - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• GRRM releases sample from Fire and Blood, Volume One from the reign of Jaehaerys I Targaryen. - A Fire and Blood Excerpt just for YOU!, 9/27/2018
• GRRM shows off the international covers for Fire and Blood. - Football, Fire and Other Stuff, 11/5/2018
• Fire and Blood, Volume One hits #1 on the NYT Best Seller List to George’s delight. - Two Weeks to Remember, 12/10/2018
• GRRM suggests Fire and Blood, Volume One be nominated for “Best Related Series” for a Hugo. - Hugo Eligibility: Fire and Blood, 2/2/2019
• Limited Edition of Fire and Blood, Volume One released. - Fire and Blood Limited, 7/15/2019
• Fire and Blood is released in paperback. - Fire and Blood Comes to Paperback, 8/17/2020
• Mass Market Paperback Edition of Fire and Blood, Volume One released. - Mass Market Paperback of Fire and Blood Release, 8/27/2021

The Winds of Winter

• GRRM jokes that he won’t cancel WorldCon 2010 at Melbourne, “no matter how late THE WINDS OF WINTER is by then.” – GRRM Comment, Missing Worldcon, 9/3/2007
• GRRM is writing TWOW, Arianne II (He writes this chapter for ADWD) – Not Done Yet, 2/8/2010
• GRRM cuts two written Arianne chapters, an unwritten third Arianne chapter and a partly-written unknown POV chapter (likely Jon Connington) to TWOW and states that in addition to these, he now has an Arya and the forementioned Sansa chapter cut to TWOW: – Dancing in Circles, 6/27/2010
• Damphair cut to TWOW, GRRM now has 100 manuscript pages for TWOW. – Dancing, 7/31/2010
• GRRM shifts chapters from ADWD to TWOW: – Talking About Dance, 5/19/2011
• GRRM refers to TWOW as “The Son of Kong” for the first time. – Monkeys on my Back, 6/1/2011
• GRRM refuses to comment on how long he expects to take writing TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Monkeys on my Back, 6/1/2011
• Whether the show will catch up to him is a problem for later. – GRRM Comment, Working Away, 7/6/2011
• “It was a dark and stormy night” might be a good, opening line to TWOW. – The WINDS will Blow, 8/14/2011
• TWOW, Theon I published as a sample chapter. – A Taste of Winter, 12/28/2011
• GRRM has an extended talk at TIFF, reads from TWOW, Victarion I. – Talking with Canadians, 3/17/2012
• Work being done on the Dothraki for TWOW. – Odds and Ends, 3/12/2012
• GRRM working on TWOW, lots to do. – Monkeys on my Back, 6/23/2012
• TWOW is nowhere near half-done by late 2012. – GRRM Comment, More on the App, 12/5/2012
• Arianne I is released as a new sample chapter. – A Taste of Winter, 1/8/2013
• GRRM will reveal nothing about “what’s up” with Jon. – GRRM Comment, Season Four, 3/5/2013
• GRRM thinks that TWOW will come before the Jets make the playoffs. (Ed Note: This still holds as of late 2021) – GRRM Comment, NFL Draft, 4/27/2013
• GRRM “isn’t done” with Salladhor Saan – GRRM Comment, We’re Number One, 7/6/2013
• New characters are coming in TWOW, and minor characters will take on more prominent roles in TWOW. – GRRM Comment, We’re Number One, 7/7/2013
• GRRM says more about minor characters reappearing in Winds. – GRRM Comment, In Memoriam, 7/25/2013
• Paperback edition of A Dance with Dragons will contain a new TWOW sample, but he forgets which one. (It’s Barristan I). – Paperbacks Are Coming, 9/14/2013
• GRRM reveals the TWOW sample POV is Barristan in the ADWD Paperback. – The Dragons Are Here, 10/29/2013
• GRRM refutes report that he has 1000 manuscript pages complete for TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Season Four Trailer, 1/13/2014
• GRRM announces that he will publish a new TWOW sample known as “Mercy.” – Something Old, Something New, 3/25/2014
• GRRM gives a detailed breakdown of TWOW, Mercy (Arya I). – I Broke the Internet, 3/27/2014
• This is not the final version of the chapter. GRRM Comment, I Broke the Internet, 3/27/2014
• GRRM thinks this will be the last sample chapter (Ed Note: It won’t be) – GRRM Comment, I Broke the Internet, 3/28/2014
• GRRM has not had to do as much re-writing for TWOW as he had for AFFC and ADWD. – GRRM Comment, I Broke the Internet, 3/28/2014
• GRRM continues to wrestle with the Son of Kong. – GRRM Comment, Godzilla is Coming, 5/7/2014
• People of color will take on more prominent roles in TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Comicon is Coming, 8/2/2014
• In conjunction with the Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, GRRM will write the highest donator to the sanctuary into TWOW where he/she will die horribly. – Me and the Wolves, 6/5/2014
• GRRM returns from his marathon con/appearances tour, will spend Fall 2014 into 2015 in Westeros. – Home Again, 8/28/2014
• GRRM refutes rumors that the 12 days of Westeros campaign will end with a publication date for TWOW. – Rumors and Fabrications, 12/9/2014
• GRRM hopes that TWOW is not on any publication schedule. – GRRM Comment, Marathon Time!, 2/6/2015
• GRRM returns home from Texas to work on TWOW (among other projects) – Home Again, 3/2/2015
• GRRM responds with “We’ll see” when someone asks if TWOW will have more chapters than ASOS. – GRRM Comment, Season 5, 5/13/2015
• GRRM was not putting the final touches on TWOW as of March 2015. – GRRM Comment, Peter Beagle Is Coming Back, 3/11/2015
• GRRM cancels his attendance at the World Fantasy Convention and states that he’s also cancelling his attendance at the San Diego Comic-Con, but reserves the right to change his change his mind if he completes and delivers The Winds of Winter. – Sorry, Saratoga, 3/14/2015
• GRRM cautions that premature celebration for TWOW’s completion is a “bad idea.” – GRRM Comment, Sorry, Saratoga, 3/17/2015
• GRRM’s only current writing project is TWOW, and he is busy on it. – Conventions and Cancellations, 3/27/2015
• GRRM won’t release page counts or progress reports on TWOW due to the headaches this caused him previously. – GRRM Comment, Conventions and Cancellations, 4/1/2015
• GRRM says we might see a new sample chapter. – GRRM Comment, Conventions and Cancellations, 3/31/2015
• Alayne I released as a sample chapter – A Visit to the Vale, 4/2/2015
• GRRM heads to ConQuest, will read a chapter from TWOW there (It’s Alayne I) – Conquest Bound, 5/18/2015
• GRRM refuses to comment on the Shireen burning. – GRRM Comment, Autograph Hounds, 6/10/2015
• GRRM still wrestling with TWOW, after Sad Puppies post, he declares his intent to return to a chapter from TWOW. – Wars, Woes, Work, 6/10/2015
• Some secondary characters who disappeared in books 4 and 5 will return in TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Wars, Woes, Work, 6/11/2015
• Some characters who died in S05 will not die at all in the books. – GRRM Comment, Back in the USA, 7/7/2015
• GRRM will tour for TWOW, but he’s unsure of the length or how extensive the tour will be. – GRRM Comment, The Calendar is Coming, 7/10/2015
• GRRM will meet with his publishers and talk about TWOW (Ed. Note: At this meeting GRRM tells them he can’t meet their Halloween deadline. His publishers say they can publish TWOW before S06 if he can deliver a manuscript by January 1, 2016) – GRRM Comment, Direwolves on Staten Island, 7/12/2015
• TWOW is more stressful to GRRM than the Sad Puppies drama. – GRRM Comment, Sasquan and Beyond, 7/27/2015
• Stannis is alive in the books beyond a doubt. – GRRM Comment, Off to Spokane, 8/26/2015
• A number of characters dead in the show will survive the books, but “don’t get complacent.” – GRRM Comment, Back From Buonicon, 9/1/2015
• TWOW will be finished when it’s finished. – GRRM Comment, Blacklist Burlesque Presents “Burlesque is Coming: A Tribute to the Works of George RR Martin”, 9/15/2015
• GRRM refutes rumors that there’s a ASOIAF movie in the works. He’s still writing TWOW. – What Movie?, 9/28/2015
• GRRM still writing TWOW – GRRM Comment, Maybe You CAN Go Home Again, 11/12/2015
• GRRM starts to hand off more posts to his minions so he can do work (TWOW primarily at this point) – GRRM Comment, A Conversation with Missy Suicide, Founder of the Suicide Girls, 11/16/2015
• GRRM dismisses claims by Gawker that he has no pages complete for TWOW. – GRRM Comment, More Hugo Suggestions, 12/30/2015
• Ted Nasmith will likely not illustrate a limited edition of TWOW as was previously indicated. – GRRM Comment, More Hugo Suggestions, 12/30/2015
• TWOW update incoming, but he’s weary of the question. – GRRM Comment, More Hugo Suggestions, 12/30/2015
• TWOW chapters have not been lost due to having them written in Wordstar 4.0. – GRRM Comment, Well Damn, 1/1/2016
• GRRM finds it interesting that some fans would rather hear a reading from Fire and Blood rather than TWOW at a convention. – GRRM Comment, Last Year (Travel and Conventions), 1/2/2016
• GRRM releases a mega-update on TWOW – Last Year (Winds of Winter), 1/2/2016
• TWOW is not finished.
• GRRM has hundreds of pages, dozens of chapters complete, but he’s months away at best from finishing.
• Lots of rewriting, restructuring going on.
• GRRM’s first deadline was end of October 2015, but his publishers granted him to the end of December to deliver the manuscript.
• GRRM has had more bad days of writing TWOW than good ones in 2015.
• TWOW will not be published before the start of S06.
• GRRM was unhappy with some of the way TWOW was written and began rewriting.
• GRRM was working on a Theon chapter in late December.
• Once TWOW is delivered, his publishers can turn the book around in 3 months.
• GRRM talks about characters who weren’t featured in GoT or whose stories were cut short in the show and how they’re still alive in ASOIAF
• TWOW will be as good as GRRM can make it.
• GRRM will not provide monthly updates on TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Last Year (Winds of Winter), 1/2/2016
• Horn cover is the current cover for TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Last Year (Winds of Winter), 1/2/2016
• GRRM thanks fans for their support from his TWOW post – Thanks, 1/2/2016
• GRRM is considering releasing more chapters from TWOW. – GRRM Comment, Listen to This, 1/6/2016
• GRRM does not know whether Roy Dotrice will narrate the TWOW audiobook. – GRRM Comment, Listen to This, 1/7/2016
• It would not be GRRM’s preference to split TWOW into two parts. – GRRM Comment, Listen to This, 1/7/2016
• GRRM won’t return to Texas A&M to pick up his honorary degree from them until Winds is complete. - What’s Up, Doc, 2/8/2016
• GRRM will send his TWOW manuscript to A&M eventually. - GRRM Comment, What’s Up, Doc, 2/10/2016
• Winds adds a considerable amount of stress to GRRM, but he says the response to his mega-update post was overwhelmingly positive. - GRRM, Comment, See You in Roanoke, 2/22/2016
• GRRM will do a reading from either TWOW or F&B at Mysticon. (It’s Arianne I and II). - GRRM Comment, See You in Roanoke, 2/22/2016
• GRRM may release more sample chapters, and he guarantees that the ones he’s read or released will be in Winds, although he’s restructured some of them. - GRRM Comments, Odds and Ends, 3/4/2016
• When a fan asks whether GRRM will drop a TWOW clue/riddle/puzzle if Brienne and Jaime win the Suvudu Cage Match, George jokingly accuses the fan of being “greedy.” - GRRM Comment, Live to Fight Another Day, 3/16/2016
• Season Six will contains spoilers for The Winds of Winter. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/11/2016
• GRRM wishes TWOW was done. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/10/2016 
• George will do another reading from TWOW at Balticon. Summaries are fine. Recordings of it are not. - GRRM Comments, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/9/2016
• GRRM has been too busy with TWOW to read the scripts for Season Six — though he’s read the outlines for the episodes. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/10/2016
• George might read a sample chapter from TWOW at Guadalajara Book Fair, but he hasn’t really thought about it yet as it’s four cons down the road. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/10/2016
• No interviews until TWOW is complete. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/11/2016
• Winds will be released when it’s done. - GRRM Comment, Last Call (Almost), 4/12/2016
• George wrote no episodes for Season Six as it would have taken a month or more to write an episode and is only working on Winds. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/14/2016
• GRRM has given up on making predictions on when Winds will come out. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/14/2016
• George will decide what he’ll write after he finishes Winds. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/17/2016
• Everyone will have a different take on whether to read Winds or watch Season Six first. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/16/2016
• Puppygate is a distraction from Winds. - GRRM Comment, A Response to John C. Wright, 5/2/2016
• Arianne II is released as the latest sample chapter from Winds. A Taste of This, a Taste of That, 5/10/2016
• The Sand Snakes, Prince Doran, Areo Hotah, Ellaria Sand, Dark Star and the rest of the Dornish characters will be up to a lot in TWOW.
• TWOW is growing
• Areo Hotah will continue as a POV. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/11/2016
• Winds is not being edited for release by the end of May 2016. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/12/2016
• GRRM is not planning any new POVs for TWOW. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/13/2016
• GRRM never promised that the Arianne chapter would tell readers what Darkstar was up to. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/13/2016
• Winds will “maybe” have a prologue and epilogue. - GRRM Comment, A Taste of This, A Taste of That, 5/13/2016
• GRRM will read something at Balticon 2016 but hasn’t decided what he’ll read. - GRRM Comment, A Few Quick Thoughts, 5/24/2016
• GRRM was not implying there would be only one Damphair chapter in TWOW. - GRRM Comment, Baltimore and NYC, 6/13/2016
• George says it was a joke when he says he only writes three Winds chapters over a six month period. - GRRM Comment, Pat Conroy Literary Center, 6/17/2016
• TWOW will not be announced at Worldcon 2016. - GRRM Comment, MAC Nattering, 7/30/2016
• GRRM has no announcement on TWOW as of August 2016. - The Long Game … Of Thrones, 8/1/2016
• Random House or George have not cancelled TWOW. - GRRM Comment, Signed Books at the JCC, 10/15/2016
• George has not lost the manuscript for TWOW. - GRRM Comment, Now On Sale, 10/21/2016
• No new cons beyond the annual WorldCon and already-committed-to appearances until TWOW is done. - South of the Border, 11/28/2016
• GRRM doesn’t want to do an update on TWOW as it won’t stop people from pestering him about it, but he is working on it. - GRRM Comment, End of the Season, 1/7/2017
• There’s been progress made on TWOW in 2016, not as much as GRRM hoped, but he hopes to be done in 2017. - GRRM Comment, Doom, Despair, Defeat, 1/10/2017
• GRRM might participate in a reddit “Ask Me Anything” but only after Winds is done. - GRRM Comment, Another Precinct Heard From, 2/19/2017
• TWOW won’t take four more years to complete (by early 2017). - GRRM Comment, Tor Launches Wild Card Re-Read, 2/25/2017
• GRRM won’t announce publication before announcing completion and delivery of TWOW. - GRRM Comment, Publication Day, 2/28/2017
• The harder GRRM works on TWOW (and his other projects), the farther he feels like he’s falling behind. - March Madness, 3/18/2017
• GRRM does not have writer’s block in writing TWOW. - GRRM Comment, March Madness, 3/19/2017
• GRRM won’t release anymore sample chapters as he needs to leave some stuff for the book itself. - GRRM Comment, Here’s the Scoop on NIGHTFLYERS, 5/18/2017
• GRRM won’t provide updates on his progress on TWOW as he found that counterproductive when writing ADWD.  - GRRM Comment, Aces, Jokers, Artists, 6/11/2017
• GRRM gets annoyed at all the TWOW questions when the notablog topic is Wild Cards. - GRRM Comment, Aces, Jokers, Artists, 6/12/2017
• Winds will be different from Game of Thrones in some ways and parallel it in other ways with many characters dead on the show but alive in the books and lots of characters who never existed in the show existing in the books. - GRRM Comment, Binging, 7/9/2017
• GRRM probably won’t be writing episodes for any shows (to include the Game of Thrones Successor Shows) until he’s finished The Winds of Winter. - Who Fears Death?, 7/11/2017
• There is a major plot twist that will be in TWOW but not in the show. - GRRM, Comment, Tick, Tick, Tick, 7/12/2017
• GRRM is months away from completing and delivering TWOW and is having bad days and good days in writing it. He is unsure whether F&B or TWOW will be published first. - The Swords Are Drawn, 7/22/2017
• Roy Dotrices passes away, and GRRM is unsure who will narrate Winds or Dream. - Rest in Peace, Roy, 10/17/2017
• TWOW is not coming in 2018. - Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/25/2018
• GRRM doesn’t know if he wants to release more sample chapters as he feels like he’s released too many, and people complained to George about him releasing material he’s already read aloud or released as samples. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• GRRM won’t release the Tyrion I sample chapter he read at a con as a sample. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• GRRM has resisted publisher notions of splitting TWOW into multiple parts. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• Some rewriting for TWOW has occurred, but there have also been distractions, GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• When asked what POV GRRM is working on, he answers with “Smudge.” - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• GRRM wants to finish Book Six. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/1/2018
• There are many twists GRRM imagined back in the 90s, and they are still in play. However, new ideas are gardened into existence. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• Updates on TWOW progress does more harm than good in GRRM’s opinion; so he doesn’t give them. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• GRRM gives a detailed explanation about cutting the two battles from ADWD to TWOW. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 5/2/2018
• GRRM is still working on TWOW instead of scripting the successor shows. - HBO Greenlights Goldman Pilot, 6/11/2018
• GRRM set aside editing work with Gardner Dozois for The Book of Swords and The Book of Magic to finish Winds. - Editing with Gardner, 6/17/2018
• GRRM won’t read new chapters from TWOW at Worldcon 2018 as he wants to save some chapters for the book. - GRRM Comment, Worldcon Time, 8/9/2018
• All but a few questions will be answered in the last two books. - GRRM Comment, I’m Number 48, 11/3/2018
• George is working hard on a lot of things, including TWOW. - Football, Fire and Other Stuff, 11/5/2018
• GRRM is up in his fortress of solitude, back in Westeros working on The Winds of Winter and promises that readers will get the end to ASOIAF at some point. - Two Weeks to Remember, 12/10/2018
• GRRM busy at home writing TWOW. - Raya Rocks Starport, 3/24/2019
• George has “pages to write”. - Stuff and Nonsense, 5/4/2019
• GRRM has been back home in Westeros, working on Winds which is not finished. - More Stuff, More Nonsense, 5/19/2019
• The Winds of Winter is late, but GRRM is working on it, and he will finish it. - An Ending, 5/20/2019
• The ending of the show will and won’t be different from the books.
• We will learn the fates of Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI and lots of great and small characters.
• There will be unicorns in TWOW
• GRRM jokingly says if he doesn’t have TWOW in hand when he arrives in New Zealand for Worldcon 2020, they can lock him up to finish it. - Thanks New Zealand, 5/21/2019
• GRRM writing TWOW every day in his mountain cabin. - No Fooling, 4/2/2020
• Good days and bad days, but progress is being made on TWOW, and Westeros is calling. - This, That, and t’other Thing, 4/14/2020
• GRRM spending long hours every day working on TWOW, has finished three chapters over the past week. - Writing, Reading, Writing, 6/23/2020
• Still a long ways go, and the book won’t be finished in a week
• GRRM visiting Cersei, Asha, Tyrion, Barristan, Areo and dropping into Braavos in a week.
• GRRM still having good and bad days, but he’s pleased with how things are going with the book
• GRRM wishes he could write faster
• Arya is calling George, and she means to kill someone
• GRRM still working on TWOW even as he prepares to be the toastmaster for Worldcon 2020. - Rocket Time, 6/30/2020
• Writing TWOW is hard, but GRRM is making good progress. - Writing, 7/19/2020
• Three more chapters completed
• Good progress on other chapters
• GRRM moving forward with TWOW again up in his mountain cabin. - Back in Westeros, 8/15/2020
• GRRM writing Melisandre, Samwell, Victarion, Tyrion and Arya chapters
• GRRM deep in the heart of Westeros, surrounded by his characters: all of them flawed, heroic, selfish, strong, weak, smart, stupid - Life After Death, 8/26/2020
• GRRM writing TWOW most days and into the evenings. - Stuff to Watch, 9/4/2020
• Work continues on The Winds of Winter. - Back to Westeros, 11/8/2020
• GRRM says it’s a big book, and he’s writing it a chapter/page/sentence/word at a time.
• GRRM has been rewriting some of it as well, spending time with Cersei and Tyrion, visiting Dorne and Oltown.
• Older chapters, including some stuff George read at cons or released as samples, are being revised.
• GRRM tweaking, moving thing around, combining and breaking apart chapters, reordering events
• GRRM’s pace on the book slowed in August due to personal reasons, but he is picking up steam again.
• GRRM posts a picture quote from Ernest Hemingway about bleeding into a typewriter. - So True, 12/21/2020
• GRRM wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages for TWOW in 2020. - Reflections on a Bad Year, 2/2/2021
• 2020 was the best year GRRM had on writing TWOW.
• He still has hundreds of pages to write to finish the novel.
• GRRM is hoping he’ll finish the book in 2021, but he won’t make predictions.
• GRRM needs to finish TWOW, write D&E and get right into ADOS, and he’s heading back to Westeros to work on TWOW. - Coming Eventually, Maybe, 3/11/2021
• GRRM has books to write and promises to keep before he sleeps. - Back to the Midwest, 7/16/2021

A Dream of Spring

• GRRM comes up with A Dream of Spring as his title for his final (hopefully) novel. – This, That and the Other Thing, 3/28/2006
• GRRM won’t write short fiction until he finishes TWOW and ADOS. – GRRM Comment, Still More Danger, 7/28/2013
• Only the book ending is canonical. – GRRM Comment, Marathon Continues, 1/12/2014
• If Game of Thrones goes to ten seasons, GRRM might be able to publish A Dream of Spring first. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/9/2016
• GRRM has no pages written for A Dream of Spring by mid-2019. - Idiocy on the Internet, 5/13/2019
• We will see more Bronn in TWOW/ADOS. - More idiocy on the Internet, 5/13/2019

Game of Thrones

• GRRM announces that HBO has optioned A Song of Ice and Fire. – HBO Options A Song of Ice and Fire, 1/17/2007
• No news on the HBO series by the end of 2007. – No News Is… No News, 12/17/2007
• David Benioff and Dan Weiss turn in a second draft for the pilot for Game of Thrones. – Ice & Fire on HBO, 6/13/2008
• HBO exercises their option and purchases rights to Game of Thrones.  – News from HBO, 9/9/2008
• Production Order issued for Game of Thrones pilot. – Huge, Huge News, 11/11/2008
• GRRM announces that Game of Thrones will begin filming in October 2009. – Winter is Coming… to HBO, 4/21/2009
• Spring/Summer 2009 Casting Announcements:
• GRRM announces Peter Dinklage will play Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. – The Beans Are Spilled, 5/6/2009
• GRRM announces castings of Sean Bean, Mark Addy and Kit Harington. – A Casting We Will Go, 7/19/2009
• Jennifer Ehle has been cast as Catelyn Stark. (Ed. Note: She doesn’t remain cast) – Scooped, 8/3/2009
• GRRM reveals that Theon & Jaime have been cast. Hints that 3 female roles have also been cast. – Dutch Treats and Casting Calls, 8/12/2009
• Fall 2009 Casting announcements
• Nikolaj Coster-Waldau cast as Jaime Lannister. – As Jaime Lannister, 8/20/2009
• Alfie Allen cast as Theon Greyjoy. – As Theon Greyjoy, 8/21/2009
• Masie Williams and Sophie Turner cast as Arya and Sansa. – As Arya and Sansa, 8/21/2009
• Richard Madden cast as Robb Stark. – As Robb Stark, 8/21/2009
• Tamzin Merchant cast as Daenerys Targaryen (Ed Note: didn’t stick) – As Daenerys Targaryen, 8/21/2009
• Iain Glenn cast as Jorah Mormont – As Jorah Mormont, 8/21/2009
• Lena Headey cast as Cersei Lannister. – As Cersei Lannister, 9/2/2009
• Rory McCann cast as Sandor Clegane. – As Sandor Clegane, 9/23/2009
• Ron Donachie and Donald Sumpter cast as Rodrik Cassel and Maester Luwin. – HBO Pilot Cast, 10/20/2009
• Prologue Characters Cast. – Three for the Prologue
• Isaac Hempstead Wright & Joseph Mawle cast as Bran & Benjen Stark. – A Pair of Starks, 10/21/2009
• Esme Bianco cast as Ros. – The Big Man and the Redhead, 10/21/2009
• Jason Momoa cast as Khal Drogo. – The Last Man Cast…, 10/21/2009
• HBO has until the end of March to announce if they’ll greenlight the show. – The Ides of March, 3/1/2010
• HBO greenlights Game of Thrones. – HBO, 3/2/2010
• 2010 Castings:
• GRRM announces that Catelyn Stark will now be played by Michelle Fairly. – GRRM Comment, Grey Days, 3/22/2010
• GRRM turns in first draft for The Pointy End for Game of Thrones. – May Day, 5/1/2010
• GRRM reassures fans that Game of Thrones, Season 1 will remain true to ASOIAF. – GRRM comment, May Day, 5/2/2010
• Emilia Clarke recast as Daenerys Targaryen. – A New Daenerys, 5/21/2010
• GRRM reports needing to take a cold shower after watching auditions for Shae. – A Casting We Will Go, 6/0/2010
• GRRM thinks that AFFC & ADWD could be two seasons’ worth of material. – GRRM Comment, – Stuff and Nonsense, 6/18/2010
• Finn Jones announced as Loras Tyrell. – The Knight of Flowers, 6/19/2010
• Roy Dotrice & Kristian Nairn cast as Pycelle and Hodor respectively (Ed. Note: Dotrice got cancer shortly after he was cast and this role was recast) – Fessing Up, 6/23/2010
• John Bradley cast as Samwell Tarly. – Two for the Watch, 7/12/2010
• Miltos Yeromelou cast as Syrio Forell. – The Dancing Master, 7/12/2010
• Aidan Gellen cast as Petyr Baelish. – And Here’s Petyr, 7/13/2010
• Jamie Sives cast as Jory Cassel. – One Loyal Man, 7/13/2010
• Ian McElhinney cast as Barristan Selmy. – The White Knight, 7/15/2010
• Conleth Hill cast as Varys. – Along Came a Spider, 7/15/2010
• Rob Ostlere recast as Waymar Royce. – Recasting Royce, 7/15/2010
• James Cosmo cast as Jeor Mormont. – Nailed It, 7/16/2010
• Casting List for S01 of Game of Thrones. – From HBO, 7/16/2010
• Peter Vaughan cast as Maester Aemon. – Actors, Actors Everywhere, 7/17/2010
• Kate Dickie and Lino Facioli cast as Lysa and Robin Arryn. – In the Vale, 7/22/2010
• Julian Glover recast as Pycelle on account of Roy Dotrice’s health. – A Change in the Small Council, 7/28/2010
• Roxanne McKee cast as Doreah. – You Guys Are Scary Good, 7/28/2010
• Sibel Kekilli cast as Shae. – You Guys are Scary Good, The Sequel, 7/28/2010
• Amrita Acharia cast as Irri – Three for Three, 7/28/2010
• Charles Dance, Conan Stevens and Eugene Simon cast as Tywin, Gregor and Lancel. – Three More for the Show, 8/10/2010
• Elyes Gabel and Joe Dempsie cast as Jhogo and Gendry. – Take a Bow, 8/10/2010 
• Lalor Roddy, Simon Lowe, Mark Lewis Jones, Clive Mantle and Susie Kelly cast as the Catspaw Assassin, the wineseller, Shagga, Greatjon Umber and Marsha Heddle. – Four Hits and a Freebie, 8/20/2010
• Ben Hawkey and Eros Vlahos cast as Hotpie and Lommy. – Two for the Road, 10/4/2010
• GRRM reminisces on meeting David and Dan and why he chose to go ahead and make the HBO series. – GRRM comment, Lights, Camera, Action. 7/28/2010
• GRRM sees private screening of E01 & E02 of GoT, enjoys it a lot. – Back at the Holdfast, 4/10/2011
• GRRM’s enthusiasm for the show is genuine, but if it weren’t, he wouldn’t blast the show in public. – GRRM Comment, Back ta the Holdfast, 4/10/2011
• HBO renews Game of Thrones for a second season. – Second Season!!!, 3/19/2011
• GRRM comments on Sansa’s direwolf dying. – Lament for Lady, 5/13/2011
• GRRM completes first draft of S02E09 “Blackwater” – Working Away, 7/5/2011
• 2011 Castings
• Gwendoline Christie cast as Brienne. – The Maid of Tarth, 7/7/2011
• John Stahl cast as Rickard Karstark. – Once More Into The Breach.., 10/12/2011
• Rose Leslie and Simon Armstrong cast as Ygritte and Qhorin. – Two More Players, 10/13/2011
• Edward Dogliani cast as the Lord O’ Bones. – Casting Nugget, 11/15/2011
• GRRM hints that Robb’s romance would be with someone different from the books. – GRRM Comment, April Is Coming, 3/2/2012
• GRRM announces that HBO has picked up Season 3 of Game of Thrones – Season Three, 4/11/2012
• GRRM urged changed in Jeyne Westerling’s name. – GRRM Comment, The Ladder, 2/13/2013
• Game of Thrones is renewed for a fourth season. – Season Four!!!, 3/3/2013
• There will be no Strong Belwas in Game of Thrones. – GRRM Comment, Dark Sword Strikes Again, 4/5/2013
• GRRM defends the Mhysa scene from Season 3’s concluding episode. – GRRM Comment, Back from LA, 6/13/2013
• GRRM defends the casting of Pedro Pascal. – GRRM Comment, We’re Number One, 7/11/2013
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths cast as Mace Tyrell – The Wedding Guest, 7/29/2013
• GRRM recalls his time as an extra (a Pentoshi merchant). – GRRM Comment, Season Four, Foreshadowing, 2/10/2014
• GRRM announces that Game of Thrones has been renewed for a fifth season. – Ratings, Renewals, Reviews, 4/8/2014
• GRRM discusses the Jaime/Cersei rape scene from Season 4. – GRRM Comment, Author, Author! 4/21/2014
• GRRM prefers his version of Dany’s wedding night. – GRRM Comment, Hugo Nominations!, 4/22/2014
• GRRM uses the “how many children did Scarlett O’Hara have” line when discussing the Night’s King from S04 and whether it’s a spoiler for the books or not. – GRRM Comment, Sibel Meets Woody, 5/1/2014
• GRRM has no idea how many seasons Game of Thrones will be. – How Many Seasons?, 3/12/2015
• GRRM believes the best adaptations of books are ones that stay close to the source material. – GRRM Comment, How Many Seasons?, 3/13/2015
• GRRM doesn’t consider the show passing the books to be a betrayal, more “kinda awkward.” – GRRM Comment, How Many Seasons?, 3/14/2015
• GRRM states that the books and show are diverging and will continue to diverge, but likely meet in the end. – The Show, The Books, 5/18/2015
• GRRM discusses the Maegor III line from S05 of Game of Thrones – GRRM Comment, Autographs Hounds 6/9/2015
• GRRM has read the outlines for script from S06, but not the full script. – GRRM Comment, The Hugo Losers Party, 8/27/2015
• George enjoyed Season Five’s “Hardhome” and “Mother’s Mercy”. - GRRM Comment, Nomination Time, 3/8/2016
• Season Six is Coming. - Season 6 Is Coming, 3/16/2016
• GRRM would be all for a movie finishing the show, but it’s up to HBO. - GRRM Comment, Season 6 Is Coming, 3/11/2016
• Season Six Premiere. - Season Six Premiere, 4/13/2016
• GRRM would consider writing an episode for Seasons Seven or Eight if he finishes Winds by the time the writing process begins for those seasons. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/14/2016
• By April 2016, GRRM has not seen the Season Six premiere. - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/14/2016
• When talking about the differences between show and books and the “butterfly effect”, GRRM states that the “butterflies have become dragons.” - GRRM Comment, Season Six Premiere, 4/14/2016
• Season Six General Release - HBO Premiere, 4/24/2016
• Characters who die on the show does not mean that they will die in the books. And some who died in the show and will die in the books will die in different ways. - GRRM Comment, The Puppy Wars Resume, 4/28/2016
• GRRM thinks Kit Harington has done an extraordinary job as Jon Snow (as well as all the actors and people who work on Game of Thrones). - GRRM Comment, A Response to John C. Wright, 5/3/2011
• Season Six Emmy Nominations post. - Three and Twenty Golden Gals, 7/14/2016GRRM celebrates the Emmy Wins for Game of Thrones in 2016. - Emmys, Emmys, Emmys, 9/13/2016
• GRRM would prefer if Game of Thrones had thirteen episodes per season. - GRRM Comment, Emmys, Emmys, Emmys, 9/14/2016
• GRRM thinks a cameo appearance in Game of Thrones’ final season is not out of the question, but he has too much work to do now. - GRRM Comment, More Wilds Cards Coming Your Way, 12/10/2016
• Game of Thrones up for four Golden Globes. - GAME OF THRONES Competes for Golden Globes. - 12/14/2016
• GRRM continues to say he might do a cameo for Season Eight. - GRRM Comment, Thor Joins GAME OF THRONES, 3/6/2017
• HBO will never allow the unaired pilot of Game of  Thrones to air in the Jean Cocteau theater. - GRRM Comment, Coming to Santa Fe, 3/6/2017
• Season Seven Announcement Post - Season 7 Is Coming, 3/10/2017
• “Battle of the Bastards” and “The Doors” are nominated for Hugos for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form. - Hugo Ballot Announced, 4/4/2017
• George has the same level of involvement with Season Seven as he had with Season Six. - GRRM Comment, Some Odds, Some Ends, 6/28/2017
• Season Seven Premiere. - A New Season, 7/17/2017
• Season Eight Announcement. - Season 8 Is Coming, 1/17/2019
• George writes a post about the end of Game of Thrones, chronicling the history of the production and thanking the people who made the show. - An Ending, 5/20/2019
• Game of Thrones breaks record of Emmy Nominations. - HBO, GOT Smash Records, 7/16/2019
• Game of Thrones takes home an Emmy for best dramatic presentation. - Emmy Times Four, 10/2/2019
• GRRM shares pictures of his cameo from the original pilot of Game of Thrones. The Wedding Guest, 10/26/2020

House of the Dragon/Successor Shows

• HBO is developing a successor show to Game of Thrones. - Home Again, 5/13/2017
• Five Game of Thrones Successor Shows are being developed for HBO. - About those Spinoffs… 5/14/2017
• These are prequel shows to Game of Thrones.
• GRRM has been involved for months, first pitching two shows to HBO  back in August 2016 (One of which was one of the shows being considered)
• Five writers are max Borenstein, Jane Goldman, Brian Helgeland, Carly Wray and an unnamed fifth writer
• Shows won’t be about Dunk and Egg or Robert’s Rebellion
• GRRM’s idea was not about the murder mystery in Essos or Aegon IV. - GRRM Comment, About Those Spinoffs…, 5/15/2017
• Successor Shows might fix the map of Essos. - GRRM Comment, About Those Spinoffs…, 5/15/2017
• GRRM posts a picture of five hands for the successor shows. - Just Sayin’, 8/23/2017
• GRRM reveals that Bryan Cogman is penning the fifth Game of Thrones successor show but doesn’t say what period of Westerosi history he’s adapting. But it will be “exciting.” - And Then There Were Five, 9/20/2017
• The Successor Shows went from four shows to five, back down to three and are back up to four shows. - Yowza, 3/26/2018
• The successor shows were going to happen with or without GRRM’s participation, and he’s rather participate and guide them. - GRRM Comment, Fire and Blood on the Way, 4/30/2018
• GRRM announces Jane Goldman’s successor show pilot has been greenlit. - HBO Greenlights Goldman Pilot, 6/11/2018
• Plot will take place ten thousand years (or so) before events from Game of Thrones
• GRRM likes the title “The Long Night”, but that’s up to HBO.
• While GRRM has aided Jane Goldman, it’s been mostly her work
• One successor show was shelved, but three more are in progress.
• Naomi Watts is cast in The Long Night. - Long Night Castings, 10/30/2018
• GRRM advises readers to grab a copy of Fire and Blood when it’s released to glean details of future successor shows.
• HBO tells GRRM that the new show is not yet titled The Long Night. - Football, Fire and Other Stuff, 11/5/2018
• Three Successor Shows still moving along with The Long Night filming, the other two still in pre-production. - Stuff and Nonsense, 5/4/2019
• GRRM announces that Ryan Condal is helming one of the successor shows, and it’s moving closer to getting an order from HBO. - I Could Tell You …, 9/16/2019
• The show will have dragons in it.
• It is based on Fire and Blood, Volume One.
• GRRM doesn’t think that if Ryan Condal’s show moves forward that Jane Goldman’s show won’t.
• GRRM thinks TV has room for up to four Westeros shows and still wants to do Spearcarriers.
• House of the Dragon announced to have a full season run with Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik serving as showrunners. - The Dragons Take Wing, 10/30/2019
• Sapochnik will direct the pilot/first episode
• GRRM won’t say what the show is about but advises reading his novellas in Rogues and Dangerous Women and then switching over to Fire and Blood, Volume One.
• GRRM wants to write episodes for House of the Dragon but won’t until TWOW is done.
• The Long Night successor show is cancelled, but GRRM doesn’t think it’s because of HOTD.
• GRRM announces Ti Mikkel, Claire Kiechel and Wes Tooke as being part of the writer’s room for HOTD. - A Tip O' the Crown, 11/10/2019 
• Casting for HOTD is underway in London. - Back to Westeros, 11/8/2020
• Fabien Frankel cast as Ser Criston Cole in HOTD. - Comes a Swordsman, 4/15/2020
• GRRM alludes to eight successor shows in some sort of production. - Untitled, 10/4/2021
• Trailer for HOTD drops. - The Dragons Are Coming, 10/8/2021

Odds and Ends

• ASOIAF Video game optioned as both a Real-Time Strategy and Role Playing Game.  – Videogame Rights Optioned, 6/8/2009
• GRRM announces that David J. Peterson will create Dothraki for Game of Thrones. – Klaatu Barada Nicto, 4/12/2010
• GRRM gives a preview of Game of Thrones: Genesis, a RPG game set in Westeros. – Focus and Cyanid Preview RTS Game, 7/24/2010
• GRRM signs deal bringing ASOIAF to comic form. – Ice & Fire Comes to Comics, 2/2/2011
• GRRM and Parris get married! – Big, Big, BIG News, 2/17/2015
• A Game of Thrones is released in comic form. – GAME OF THRONES Comes to Comics, 9/29/2011
• GRRM announces a Game of Thrones, MMORPG. – Game of Thrones MMORPG
• GRRM announces Game of Thrones Assent. – Social Gaming, 5/22/2012
• The Lands of Ice and Fire is published. – Maps! Maps!! Maps!!!, 10/30/2012
• TWOIAF app published. – World of Ice and Fire, 11/30/2012
• GRRM announces Telltale Game of Thrones game. – Iron from Ice, 11/18/2014
• ASOIAF Adult Coloring Book preview and release date. – All Men Must Color (Inside the Lines), 10/1/2015
• GRRM thinks people comparing NFL Teams to characters and houses in ASOIAF is overthinking it. - GRRM Comment, All Hail the Champions, 1/27/2016
• ASOIAF 2017 Calendars are available for pre-order. - NEW 2017 SoI&F Calendar Artist Didier Graffet #GrrMinion, 2/4/2016
• The A Song of Ice and Fire comic will continue. - GRRM Comment, The Long Game … Of Thrones. 8/1/2016
• Apple iBook Edition of A Game of Thrones released. - An Enhanced Apple, 9/29/2016
• If the illustrated version of A Game of Thrones does well, then there will be an illustrated A Clash of Kings in 2019 and A Storm of Swords in 2020. - GRRM Comment, Signed Books at the JCC, 9/29/2016
• Enhanced Edition of A Storm of Swords iBook available for purchase. - A Storm of Swords: Enhanced Edition Available on iBooks December 15th, 12/15/2016
• If GRRM had an NFL Team, he would name them the Direwolves. - GRRM Comment, Greed is Not Good, 1/13/2017
• ASOIAF is published in Azerbaijani. - Another Precinct Heard From, 1/16/2017
• ASOIAF 2018 Calendars available for pre-order. - 2018 SoI&F Calendar Artist Eric Velhagen #GRRMinion, 3/7/2017
• ASOIAF 2019 Calendars available for pre-order - A New Year and a New SoIaF Calendar, 1/23/2018
• ASOIAF 2020 Calendar Artist Revealed to be John Howe. - Calendar Artist Revealed, 12/9/2020
• Artwork for 2020 Calendar revealed. - 2020 SoIaF Calendar with John Howe, 7/15/2019
• 2021 ASOIAF Calendar features Quentyn Martell. - SoIaF 2021 Calendar, 2/1/2020
• A Storm of Swords: The Illustrated Edition available for pre-order. - A STORM OF SWORDS: THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 10/19/2020
• 2022 ASOIAF Calendar announcement. - 2022 Calendar Art by Arantza Sestayo, 12/31/2020

Conclusion

So, there you have it. The most complete notablog resource in existence if only because it may be the only one. This reflects not at all on my mental stability in creatin this thing. I hope you’ve enjoyed my journey into the heart of notablog darkness. Please feel free to utilize it to your heart’s delight. And if you’d like to translate it into another language, you need only ask.

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