Game of Thrones: The Archive

Here’s the recent series I did about the first book:

• The Annotation Project: A Game of Thrones
• Before We Begin: A Full Accounting of My History with “Game of Thrones”
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part 1: Have One Hero
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part 2: End the First Book in a Series in a Satisfactory Way
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part #3: Write What You Know
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part 4: Love Your Characters
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part 5: Commit to your Genre
• The Book that Breaks Every Rule, Part 6: Only Name Important Characters
• Straying from the Party Line: The Power and Peril of POV in “A Game of Thrones”
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Prologues Can Be a Microcosm of the Story
• Game of Thrones, Conclusion: So Why Do I Like It So Much?

And two earlier things I wrote about the books and TV show:

• Books vs. Movies, Addendum: Sometimes Movies (Or, in This Case, TV) Can Go Places Books Can’t
• How to Manage Expectations, Step 4: Set the Mood