George RR Martin on Writing POV Characters

A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones Author George R. R. Martin Interview on POV Characters

[leonarddillon]

3:30
- GRRM: “I do need to kill a lot more of my POV characters, there have gotten to be an awful a lot of them”
- Fan in Attendance: “No!!!!”
-GRRM: * Makes evil laugh
The writer is preparing to sharpen his typewriter like a knife 😈

[ianw.]

am I the only aspiring writer watching these interviews to learn? I also think these interviews are entertaining

[mirayoquese]

"I try to give each of my POV a story"
"I don't want my POV to be just a pair of eyes"

Areo Hotah says hello.

[jonathangoldsmith]

I love how concise he is when he speaks.

[brendanmatrix]

"Five years from now IF the next book is

[dbdist]

"I try to resist having POV characters who are there just to be a pair of eyes"

So Areo Hotah will have a story on the next book?

[graffity_x]

I love it so much, wenn George RR Martin laughs, wenn he says, that he has to kill more POV characters

[janmedeus]

Listen to this genius of a man you future writer wannabes. I know I am. Drink it in

[lucasistrom]

Video posted 5 years ago

2:29: "You know, 5 years from now, maybe when - if the next book is out..."

[gerrysabron]

each video makes me admire him more, his advice aree educational in a sense it teaches people, that instinctive, intellectual level of his writing which can be picked up as internal skill....not like many other writers were their advice are practical and sound secondary maybe an extreme ex, but almost like, saying drink milk to enhance your IQ so youd be a better writer sort of is waaay beyond that...

[cloud_zer]

It's mushroom, mushroom is the set of eyes.

[raxelleon]

Spoiler!!!



I bet that the whole reason George came up with Bran's power of seeing thing's that happened everywhere and at every-time was to solve his problem of needing more POV characters.

[RabidTales]

Who here has read the books? i would love to know if each POV character has a distinct unique style of narration. Or does the author use similar language and make it sound like each chapter is told by the 1 person the whole way throughout the book? (even though each chapter is a new person/POV)

[Ethan-hkse]

Elvis was the King of Rock, Micheal Jackson was the King of Pop, George RR Martin is the King of High Fantasy (Behind Tolkien of course)

[andrewjohnston]

I recently started using separate POV characters, except they don't have their own chapters. They probably should but they only last three to four pages.

[crematemyremains]

What's a pov character? Point of view ? What does that mean