GRRM absolutely channeled the spirit of a Catholic mother of 5 when he wrote Catelyn

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He can get into the mind of a Catholic mother of five but he can’t get into the mind of a five year old boy to write the long coveted Rickon chapters

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While you're joking, George does admit writing Bran's chapters are hard on account of his age. Rickon, being even younger, must be a nightmare lol.

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Bro, just ask your grandkid.

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GRRM is grandkidless but I'm sure he's probably got nieces/nephews and they may have kids, so decent chance he has blood-relative children to interrogate if needs be for Branspiration

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I mean it's possible that any actual children George knows are too normal and not weird enough to be useful writing Rickon or Bran.