We have proof from the man himself he saved work from that time so I don’t think it is fair to just not count that against his writing time. Of course, it has been revised, tightened, polished, and tweaked at every step of the way, so the version on my website has some significant differences from the 'five year gap' version.” But it seemed more like an opening chapter than a closing one, so shortly before ADWD was published my editor and I agreed to remove it from DANCE and shift it over into WINDS.
Then it was going to be the concluding Arya chapter in A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. Then it was supposed to be a part of A FEAST FOR CROWS, after I abandoned the five year gap and split the books. Originally, it was intended to be the opening Arya chapter after the infamous 'five year gap,' her first appearance in A DANCE WITH DRAGONS as initially conceived. The first draft was written more than a decade ago. “I mentioned that this chapter had quite a history. In a post last year GRRM details how he is using a chapter from those 500 pages.
I have a couple of concerns with the elimination of April 2000 – Summer 2001 from the Writing Period fact section.
