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NinjaEngineer t1_iyd4q5c wrote

Reply to comment by SAT0725 in People give George R.R. Martin grief for the delay of "The Winds of Winter," but imagine trying to write a continuation of your series after HBO already wrote their own ending to it... by SAT0725

The Harry Potter movies didn't stop JKR from finishing the series. The first movie came out before the fifth book did.

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SAT0725 OP t1_iyd9c0x wrote

> The first movie came out before the fifth book did

To be fair though, by the time the fifth book came out she was probably well into the writing of the last one. It takes forever for publishers to go to print, usually more than a year after the book is finished.

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NinjaEngineer t1_iydfgxl wrote

Not sure that rebuttal helps your point; by your own logic, by the time the first season of Game of Thrones came out, GRRM should've been finishing the last book.

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SAT0725 OP t1_iydr4vw wrote

Eh, different writers have different processes. Seems like I've read interviews with Rowling where she's said she had the whole story in her head almost from the very start.

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