So, in a shocking twist, George RR Martin was originally planning for Tyrion Lannister to be the one to burn Winterfell. Robb Stark will die in battle, and Tyrion Lannister will besiege and burn Winterfell. Robb will win several splendid victories, and maim Joffrey Baratheon on the battlefield, but in the end he will not be able to stand against Jaime and Tyrion Lannister and their allies. The burning of Winterfell is one such plot-point which bore both similarities and differences between the pitch and published forms. And the story he planned has similarities and differences between the pitch to published versions.
Thereabouts, he sent a pitch letter to his agent in which he outlined the story he planned.
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When Doorways wasn’t picked up for a full television run, GRRM returned to ASOIAF and began writing in earnest in 1993.
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George RR Martin began writing A Game of Thrones in 1991, but he paused between 19 to write a TV pilot called Doorways. Intriguingly, it wasn’t Theon who was originally slotted to do the deed. We know this, because he mentioned it in his pitch letter. Still, we can be certain that the culmination of Theon Greyjoy’s arc was always in the cards for A Song of Ice and Fire even if Theon as a POV character wasn’t. George said that at first he was just going to use the original POVs from AGoT for the entire series, then he realized that he needed to see what Stannis was doing, but didn’t want to use Stannis as a POV. And you’d be wrong! Sort-of!Īt the outset of writing A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin wasn’t planning for a Theon POV as he stated in 2003: Thereafter, Theon saved Bran’s life from wildlings, accompanied Robb Stark in his battles in the Riverlands and then bent the knee to Robb as King in the North.Īlongside of the introduction of Theon, GRRM sprinkled mentions of the Greyjoy Rebellion and Balon Greyjoy into A Game of Thrones. If you progressed right into A Clash of Kings after reading A Game of Thrones, you might have thought that George RR Martin introduced Theon Greyjoy and the Ironborn backstory in A Game of Thrones in order to establish the groundwork for plot events in A Clash of Kings. After the beheading, Theon infamously kicked Gared’s head and got called an “ass” by Jon Snow for his behavior. Theon Greyjoy first appeared in the second chapter of A Song of Ice and Fire accompanying Ned Stark to the execution of Gared. And all of that worldbuilding and backstory then became the springboard by which George RR Martin further expanded his cast of POV characters and angled the narrative towards the endgame of A Song of Ice and Fire. And in the process of writing Theon’s POV chapters, GRRM introduced extensive worldbuilding and backstory. That’s the question we’ll answer today as we’ll chart how George RR Martin rethought some of his pitch letter ideas and then expanded his cast of POV characters to include Theon Greyjoy. So, how did these characters and their culture rise from nothing to fever pitch by the start of The Winds of Winter? Importantly, most – perhaps all – of their backstory didn’t exist either. These characters either weren’t important to mention in the pitch letter or didn’t exist at all. Originally, there was no Euron, Victarion, Asha, Aeron or even Theon in the pitch letter. We started to see those hiccups when we analyzed the torturous process by which Dorne and the Dornish POVs entered the narrative, and we’re going to see it again today with the Ironborn. And for a while, those “strong notions” and “not outlining” led GRRM into fascinating and unexpected directions in A Song of Ice and Fire. New POV characters came to the fore, new storylines emerged and the overall story evolved well-beyond the original pitch letter in exciting new directions. GRRM thought that they would serve him well for this new story he was working on known as A Song of Ice and Fire. This writing process had served him well in the past as Martin was a commercially-successful author by the early 1990s. I do, however, have some strong notions as to the overall structure of the story I’m telling, and the eventual fate of many of the principle characters in the drama. I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it. Before getting to the meat of his proposed plot, he talked about his writing process:Īs you know, I don’t outline my novels. In 1993, George RR Martin wrote to his agent about an exciting new proposal for a trilogy of books.
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