After all, every story told in A Feast for Crows, both on a larger scale, such as the whole plot involving the Greyjoys, and on a small one, as with the character of Hyle Hunt, shows to be completely devoid of point or conclusion. However, despite the author’s good intentions, this brief summary already manifests the major problem afflicting every page of the novel: the lack of adequate planning. Therefore, A Feast for Crows would deal with the events that take place in the south of Westeros whereas A Dance of Dragons, the fifth volume, with those in the north and in Essos. Following the advice of a friend, Martin split it in a way that would at least preserve some narrative focus by dividing it according to the character’s location in the story. After some time, he also realized that this new novel had become too long, with more than one thousand five hundred pages, which made the publishers request him to split the story into two parts. Martin then decided to start again from scratch, picking up the story from where the third volume left off. Martin abandoned that idea, noticing that more than half of what had been written was in the format of flashback. However, long after he had produced enough material, George R. The author first decided that the plot would jump five years in time, which would allow the children and dragons to grow. A Feast for Crows, the fourth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, was released five years after A Storm of Swords, following a troubled writing process.
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