George R.R. Martin Continues to Make Little Progress on The Winds of Winter

In a caller blog post—one that has yet to beryllium deleted this time—Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin laments the archetypal fractional of 2024, saying it’s been “pretty miserable” and that helium hasn’t recovered “much solace” successful his work.

Citing the “various tv projects” that “ate up most” of the erstwhile 8 months, arsenic good arsenic his grief implicit the decease of chap subject fabrication writer Howard Waldrop, extended question plans, and a atrocious lawsuit of covid, Martin states he’s continued to marque small advancement connected the long-awaited last installment of his A Song of Fire and Ice saga. As helium says,”Writing came hard, and though I did nutrient immoderate caller pages connected some The Winds of Winter (yes) and Blood & Fire (the sequel to Fire & Blood, the 2nd portion of my Targaryen history), I would person liked to crook retired a batch more. My assorted tv projects ate up astir of those months. Some of that was pleasant (Dark Winds, and The Hedge Knight), astir of it was not. The accent kept mounting, the quality went from atrocious to worse to worst, my temper seemed to plaything betwixt fury and despair, and astatine nighttime I tossed and turned erstwhile I should person been sleeping. When I did sleep, well, my dreams were nary excessively pleasant either.”

Recently, Martin has expressed vexation with HBO’s House of the Dragon, some successful its handling of his “Blood and Cheese” storyline and continued usage of a four-legged dragon connected the House Targaryen emblem. In some matters, the writer took to his idiosyncratic website to registry his complaints.

As for that different elephant successful the room, successful 2023, during a impermanent quality connected the Bangcast podcast, Martin revealed he’s written “like 1,100 pages” of The Winds of Winter, but inactive has “hundreds of much to go,” earlier admitting he’s “struggling” to decorativeness the penultimate section of his beloved phantasy series. In 2022, Martin appeared connected The Late Show With Stephen Colbert claiming he’d written the nonstop aforesaid fig of pages with small to nary progress. As the publication was initially expected to merchandise successful July of 2014—a afloat 3 years aft his erstwhile entry, A Dance With Dragons—it’s presently overdue by a decennary and climbing. In airy of its repeated delays, fans person expressed uncertainty the publication volition ever spot the airy of day.

In his blog registering his distaste for four-legged dragons, Martin revealed that The Winds of Winter, Blood & Fire, and his planned last introduction of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dream of Spring, volition further elaborate connected “the wherefore and how” of dragons bonding with “some men,” yet not others. As the writer appears to beryllium chasing a metaphorical dragon himself, it sounds similar helium needs to reconnect with his ain instauration earlier thing gets disconnected the ground.

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