The Secrets of Page Turning Fiction: Narrative Drive in A Game of Thrones (Video 1 of 2) 

Great, man. This is gold. I'm a college professor from Venezuela, and I'll show this video to my creative writing students tomorrow. At least 20 new subscribers. Keep up the good work.

Glad i got recommended this by the algorithm; interested in learning more about these techniques, looking forward to the second video. Wouldn't mind if it was a tad bit longer!

I would love to hear what you thought about the prologue of A Dance With Dragons as well. It is one of my favorite chapters in the entire series and I feel it shares many of the same qualities you mentioned here. It's from the perspective of a character we'd seen only from Jon's eyes in a few chapters, (and grown to despise him despite how short his time was on paper) yet George writes all his grotesque thoughts and introspections in such a human and believable manner we end up having a sense of familiarity with his character as if we'd known him for a much longer time, all within the span of fifteen or so pages. The lonliness, dread, existentialism, and death, is all so beautifully written that I'm sitting here still thinking about it (and writing this comment).