{"id":2022,"date":"2012-09-15T22:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T22:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2017-09-18T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:52:53","slug":"still-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2012\/09\/15\/still-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There must be something about the words &#8220;dance&#8221; and &#8220;dragons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We all know how long the last novel took.  And now I am writing the &#8220;sidebar&#8221; (hoo hah) about the first Dance of the Dragons, the fratricidal civil war between King Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra, for THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE, and it&#8217;s turned into a monster too.  <\/p>\n<p>As of today, I have a hundred and three bloody manuscript pages (some VERY bloody) and still no end at hand.  I had hoped to finish this one today, but&#8230; no, not even close.  Lots more to write.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s some good stuff here, and judging by the reception my reading got at Chicon, most of you seem to like the fake history too.  But DAMN, there a lot of it.  <\/p>\n<p>Nothing to do but keep doing.<\/p>\n<p>Dance, you dragons, dance, dance&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be something about the words &#8220;dance&#8221; and &#8220;dragons.&#8221; We all know how long the last novel took. And now I am writing the &#8220;sidebar&#8221; (hoo hah) about the first Dance of the Dragons, the fratricidal civil war between King Aegon II and his half-sister Rhaenyra, for THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,217,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}