Will George R Martin ever finish Winds of Winter? Releasing another story

What else does he write?

Dude has been writing his entire life and has written one of the most popular series of all time. You and the other twats complaining about how fast he writes should calm the frick down. He's a professional. He knows what he's doing. I'd rather him wait and take his time writing something good than produce something shitty just to please impatient fans.

Nope. I agree that he has writer's block or he's just over it since HBO is ahead of him.

That's a book? fricking nerd, reading is for losers.

If he spent substantial time writing this instead of WOW.. frick.


I really dislike this guy. He's an incredible writer and the ASOIAF series is my favorite but personally he's just being a huge dick about the timing. Finish the series.. then fill in the Back story.

I know he has a lot of other people writing a lot of this but still


Edit: and Patrick Rolfuss is blatantly doing the same thing as GRRM but with less excuse.. frick this guy even more

I thought Amazon had the release date as March of this year?

Not writers block.

Maybe he just ran out if characters to kill off?

I'm a huge fan of the series and involve myself heavily in the online fandom. I'll point out some facts and a theory behind the release date of The Winds of Winter.

Much of GRRM's encyclopedia style book, The World of Ice and Fire, was cut. Much of what was cut was on the Targaryen kings, in favor of another novella to be titled Fire and Blood. It appears GRRM has opted to release his history of the second and third Targaryen kings, The Sons of the Dragon, in this upcoming anthology.

All of that was a long winded way of saying GRRM has had this written for at least two and a half years. GRRM has also stated that he will not be writing anything until he finishes The Winds of Winter, and considering he has cut down on public appearances in favor of writing, I see no reason not to believe him.

On to the release theory:

The other authors in the anthology were waiting on GRRM's contribution. GRRM has had this ready for months, but hadn't sent it to be published. He recently sent it off for an October release because he expects a late Q4 2017/Q1 2018 release date for The Winds of Winter, which he would announce a month before the release of the anthology. An announcement reading something like "... in the meantime, if fake history interests you, check out my contribution to the anthology THE BOOK OF SWORDS, where I provide a history of the second and third Targaryen kings, titled SONS OF THE DRAGON" would provide some serious advertising for his friends contributing to the anthology.

tl;dr: GRRM has had his contribution to The Book of Swords written for years. There's a tinfoil theory that he just recently sent it to be published in order for the release to coincide with The Winds of Winter, thereby providing a boost in sales and exposure for his friends.

Edit: Not to steal the thread, but how many of you that feel entitled to GRRM writing at breakneck speed refer to millenials as the "entitled generation"? Just curious.

He'll die before TWoW is finished.

Anybody mention HS=HR yet? Cause that's definitely happening.