Lack of focus. The main reason I read on blogs and forums is that the last book drifts too much and has a much less tight plot.
I think that quote I've taken from Bakker explains perfectly the problem. Now even if "Dance" is great he'll have a split between the bad book and the good book. There's nothing good with that. He failed as a writer to have a control over the plot and characters.
So the idea to finish the whole thing in another book is a way to force the story to run to a conclusion.
And, yeah, I doubt that after "Dance" is out some kind of miracle happens and he goes back to writing a book a year. In fact I fear that he'll be happy to have finished it and relax for a long while. And book 6 will came out even later if at all.
Re: No dancing with dragons this year
Lack of focus. The main reason I read on blogs and forums is that the last book drifts too much and has a much less tight plot.
I think that quote I've taken from Bakker explains perfectly the problem. Now even if "Dance" is great he'll have a split between the bad book and the good book. There's nothing good with that. He failed as a writer to have a control over the plot and characters.
So the idea to finish the whole thing in another book is a way to force the story to run to a conclusion.
And, yeah, I doubt that after "Dance" is out some kind of miracle happens and he goes back to writing a book a year. In fact I fear that he'll be happy to have finished it and relax for a long while. And book 6 will came out even later if at all.