来自《冰与火之歌的世界》制作团体的新年报告（许多许多刺激的东西~~~）
General update:A few weeks ago we sent a very rough partial draft of the book to the editor. This is more to give the graphic designer to start getting some ideas as to how to layout the book. At this point, it remains largely material drawn from the books, SSM, and so on. We're not getting any super secret input from GRRM until ADwD is done -- ADwD is his primary focus.
That said, yesterday George went through our list of 1400+ characters in the series, and culled it down to a couple of hundred who'll be included in a sort of Who's Who. In the process, he categorized them by how much information would be needed for their individual entries, and there are some surprising choices there that give a bit of a hint about this or that character's importance to the rest of the series.
We've seen another of Ted's castle paintings -- jaw-dropping, as I said elsewhere. And Justin Swift is said to have been making progress on his art, and George has sent him several more suggested scenes to work on as he completes those he already has set.
Presently, the plan is quite a large number of geographical maps, so the castle plan thing has fallen by the wayside. That said, there's still art budget available, so ... who knows?
Currently we're still operating from the first section or two being written as if from "in world". The advantage for us is, basically, the fact that an "in world" perspective has an excuse about not knowing everything or actively getting things wrong, whereas if it's from a purely authorial perspective. Not the whole thing though -- I don't expect that the character bios will really be written as if some maester is doing it.
The eastern continent, so far as I know, will still be named -- I've got the name down in a couple of sections of the history -- but don't expect anyone to explain why it hasn't been used until now. My gut feeling is that Westeros is synonymous with a relatively cohesive, nigh-continent spanning culture, so it makes sense the people mention it a lot ... but the eastern continent (hoped I'd let it slip, eh? (IMG:style_emoticons/New/wink.gif) is a lot more fractured culturally speaking and there's really no point to naming the whole continent -- it doesn't convey anything more than "across the Narrow Sea" or "the Free Cities" does.
Just my guess as to what a "in world" explaination would be, though.
Well, lets see:
1) Popular fantasy series
2) World book of same
3) Contains art
Yes, we're following after them (and Katherine Kurtz's Codex Derynianus).
Except with a little modification:
3) Contains good art
这点比较搞笑：
The revelation name of the eastern continent will, I assure you, be considered a mind-bending event of titanic proportions. Whispering the name into a mirror three times will summon George, and shouting it on a public street will get you arrested for inciting to riot.
It is the key not just to the series, but also the language of angels, and with them all the deep mysteries of the universe shall become as nothing!.... !!!!!
So, that's why all the mystery. 更新一些：
there won't be a Map of Ye Known Worlde, but there will be regional maps, including three or four for the East, that when combined by imaginative fans will doubtless serve quite well for that purpose. 我恨楼上的～顺便给点中文多好！ 英语不好，只能知其大意。。。 被my lord晃到了。还以为是正式的进度报告。而且在下也看不出哪里刺激（召唤强者翻译）。Master Ran所说的那些基本上都是原本就是预想之中的内容（除了那个都市传说一样的命名）。另，不抱希望地期待一下[b]伊[/b]斯特洛上可爱的复活节兔兔的华丽登场。
PS my lord忘了一个[url=http://tednasmith.com/other/grrmartin.html]链接[/url]哦。
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