The die has four faces . <| sep |> I ' m a gardener , not an architect is , I think , GRRM ' s selfdelusional cop out to explain his incredibly time inefficient writing style . He could be a gardener and use , say , an up to date computer with recently made writing software , so he can search by words or terms and find references in past chapters to be sure he ' s being consistent . Or he could draft a framework , so he knows where he ' s going , in a very general , vague sense before he sets off on his ' gardening . ' He could chose to edit chapters as he goes , rather than literally throwing out the old one and redoing it from scratch . <| sep |> We dated for 3 years . <| sep |> Dude , did you even think of the children when you said that ? Jeez .