What Could Have Been/Literature: Difference between revisions

** Martin originally planned to wrap things up in three books, with two and three titled "A Dance with Dragons" and "The Winds of Winter," now the titles of books five and six. Toward the end of "Game of Thrones" he realized he was nowhere near any workable ending and pushed it to four books, then skipped over the idea of five and settled on six while writing "Clash of Kings." And then he decided to split his plans for book four between two sets of characters over the same time period when it grew too big for one book, making for a final count of seven.

* In ''[[Remnants]]'', Tate was supposed to be a lesbian; this was part of the explanation for her drive to protect Tamara from the Baby. Amelia's name was originally "Honey"; Amazon.com's summary for ''Survival'' still uses that name, and Scholastic did in the past, as well.

* David Weber's ''[[Honorverse (Literature)|Honorverse]]'' was originally going to be timeskipped several decades, following the death of its namesake character. Her children would have continued the action. His Eric Flint collaboration ''Crown of Slaves'' nixed this original plan; its espionage plot ended up fast-forwarding the conflict by putting pressure on {{spoiler|the Mesans}} (spoiler probably unnecessary) to enact their plan early. As a happy side effect, Honor was spared, cutting off what would probably have been the greatest [[They Changed It Now It Sucks|fan rebellion]] in modern Sci-Fi literature.

** He's also had several space battles that would have been epic happen offscreen. We get the setup and then... [[Meanwhile Back At The Ranch]].