Really, you make quite a few assumptions there that are just untrue. The only thing Martin seems to miss is work ethics. Not planing, ideas, good intentions or grasp of reality. He's a perfectionist. The proof of that was the way book 4 was split - he decided to rewrite everything other than just split it by the middle - what most editors do (in my country all books are split, for example). That was the wrong decision. By wanting to get it "perfect" he did 1 (and I hope 2) great but not as good books as the others were.
The history was, indeed, planned for 6 books that became 7 due to this, so ending it on the next book would be, in my opinion, a mistake. Lets just hope that after this hurdle is done with (these two books were the ones that took the longest, the others were published within a reasonable timeframe).
I can see you're an erikson fan, and that more often than not is mutually exclusive to be a rr martin fan - but you should at least look to inform yourself about what really happened, instead of just criticizing one man - not without reason - but using all the wrong arguments.
Re: No dancing with dragons this year
Really, you make quite a few assumptions there that are just untrue. The only thing Martin seems to miss is work ethics. Not planing, ideas, good intentions or grasp of reality. He's a perfectionist. The proof of that was the way book 4 was split - he decided to rewrite everything other than just split it by the middle - what most editors do (in my country all books are split, for example). That was the wrong decision. By wanting to get it "perfect" he did 1 (and I hope 2) great but not as good books as the others were.
The history was, indeed, planned for 6 books that became 7 due to this, so ending it on the next book would be, in my opinion, a mistake. Lets just hope that after this hurdle is done with (these two books were the ones that took the longest, the others were published within a reasonable timeframe).
I can see you're an erikson fan, and that more often than not is mutually exclusive to be a rr martin fan - but you should at least look to inform yourself about what really happened, instead of just criticizing one man - not without reason - but using all the wrong arguments.