Writing is difficult. Just ask Author "Game of Thrones" George RR MartinWho is under the gun for years after his schedule for the song of the novels of ice and fire to stop. "Winds of Winter" is not the only challenge for Martin as a writer, which will not be surprising to anyone who has tried to use his own imagination or science fiction. Writing stories about the epic scale of Westeros is not an easy feat, but according to Martin, a special scene through his first five songs on ice and fire books stands out as a particular bear to finish.

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Maybe surprisingly, that scene was the red wedding. Plot twist so shocking and brutal that it became forever connected to the ordinary concept of plot twists, Red wedding sees Rob Stark's death, Ketin StarkAnd many of their circle in desperate betrayal from the Frey family. In the books, the red wedding appears in the middle of a "storm of swords", the third novel in the series, which is divided between seasons 3 and 4 of the HBO series. On the show, the event is held in Season 3, Episode 9, "The Rains of Castamere".

Seeing such beloved characters killed in such a grotesque left a lasting mark on the fans of books and the show. Perhaps that wound will be a little bit of knowledge that Martin himself had a similar difficult time to write the scene in being. "It was so difficult to write that scene, because I settled for so long, and of course I have a lot of ocation towards Rob," the author told the author. Time In 2017. Obviously, he wrote the whole second half of the novel before returning to finally create the red wedding.

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In his 2017 interview with "Time", Martin named the Red Wedding as the far -winning part of the series to be written. "I knew that the red wedding was coming and I was going to plan it, but when I came to that chapter, which appears two -thirds of the road through" Storm of Swords ", I discovered that I couldn't write that chapter," Martin said.

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It makes sense that such a key moment - the one that, from the sound of it, Martin was building to everyone together - would take real time and focus to handle properly. It is a devastating chapter and one that has become a defining moment of HBO adaptation. "It was some of the hardest writing I've ever done," Martin told Time, "but it's also one of the most powerful scenes I've ever made."

The permanent cultural impact of the red wedding Both the site and the screen is a testimony to how well Martin eventually pulled the heart's turn.