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Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:06 pm to Esquire
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I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shite about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money.
I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois.
You don’t care about any of those, I know. You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER
So he did get my messages.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:18 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Does anyone give a shite still knowing fricking Bran ends up on the throne ?
Talk about shitteing right in everyone’s faces
Talk about shitteing right in everyone’s faces
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:32 pm to CCT
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shite.
At least he sounds open to a ghost writer finishing them.
He's just playing the victim and being facetious. Here's the whole blog:
GRRM Not a Blog - May 28, 2025
It was literally a blog about him adapting Howard Waldrop's work and instead made it a cunty, whiny, mewling quim-esque narrative about how WOE IS ME the fans are SOOOOO mean to him.
I hate him. I truly, truly hate him.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:41 pm to BluegrassBelle
It all makes me sad. I think he is just crushed by the weight of expectations by fans and tired of the criticism. I know I would be.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 2:56 pm to CCT
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It all makes me sad. I think he is just crushed by the weight of expectations by fans and tired of the criticism. I know I would be.
He's too prideful to admit he's stuck and that he needs help to finish the series. Or to admit he just wants to be done with ASOIAF. Yes, fans can be demanding. But he's not the first person to have a huge series and have fans wanting the next installment. This isn't something that's unique to him, by a long shot. He's 100% brought a good chunk of the criticism on himself.
And then had the nerve to shite talk the show's ending, like he didn't have to opportunity to cultivate that by finishing the series in it's 8 year run.
I would have more sympathy if he had been more empathetic to fans who have bank rolled all of his other projects and his lifestyle with the financial dedication to the ASOIAF universe and to the GoT TV show.
Nah, I'm all out of sympathy here. He's just being a dick at this point.
Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:29 pm to CCT
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It all makes me sad. I think he is just crushed by the weight of expectations by fans and tired of the criticism. I know I would be.
You read that and actually felt sympathy for him? Is it like battered wife syndrome or something? He has spit in the fans faces for years now, making it seems like it's their fault he hasn't finished, and people still defend him. Nah, screw him.
Don't blame me for you being lazy. He's average about a page per week written for 14 years
He's a turd and a liar that doesn't deserve any sympathy. 
Posted on 5/29/25 at 3:33 pm to Esquire
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Dany and Daenerys
Its been so long since he wrote anything in this series that he forgot they were the same character
Posted on 5/29/25 at 4:04 pm to Fun Bunch
Wow
Posted on 5/29/25 at 9:15 pm to CCT
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At least he sounds open to a ghost writer finishing them.
I didn't really get that from it.
But even if it's in his will that it never be finished by another writer is that really unbreakable once the ownership/rights pass to that woman he talks about? (Longtime girlfriend, I think, but maybe wife.) Or eventually her heirs? Even if he puts the rights into a trust will the trustees never be open to one last money grab? I think someone will eventually find a way to take the money. But it might be decades. I hope I'm around to say frick you Fat George as I'm reading.
This post was edited on 5/29/25 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 6/19/25 at 9:20 pm to shinerfan
It’s taken me longer to finish Fire & Blood than any of the main series books. I enjoy it, but sheesh it’s hard for me to get through.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:51 am to DBG
Article from 2022 (Entertainment Weekly):
Entertainment Weekly - 2022
From this week:
Collider - 5 days ago
quote:
"I am making progress with The Winds of Winter, but it's still not done yet. I think it's going to be a very big book," Martin said. "I think I'm about three-quarters of the way done. The characters all interweave. I've actually finished with some of the characters, I've got their whole story, but not others. So I have to finish all that weaving. Still gonna take me awhile."
Entertainment Weekly - 2022
From this week:
quote:
After 14 long years of writing, Martin confirmed that he’s roughly 75% finished with the long-anticipated sixth installment. At the moment, he’s penned about 1,200 pages — with another 400 to 500 still to go. That alone would make it longer than A Storm of Swords and A Dance with Dragons, which previously held the record for size within the series.
Collider - 5 days ago
Posted on 7/9/25 at 10:54 am to BluegrassBelle
At this point, if he can just give me a paragraph for each character on how their story ends, I would consider that a success.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:04 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Martin confirmed that he’s roughly 75% finished with the long-anticipated sixth installment.
So it took, what, 14 years to complete 75% of the book.
So roughly another 4.5 years before it’s done?
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:36 pm to BluegrassBelle
That’s the same update from a few years ago during his Q&A with the publisher. I don’t know why Collider is rehashing it as new info.
This is the video. From October 2022
This is the video. From October 2022
This post was edited on 7/9/25 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 7/9/25 at 2:36 pm to Pikes Peak Tiger
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So it took, what, 14 years to complete 75% of the book.
So roughly another 4.5 years before it’s done?
Well, according to Bluebelle's sources, the past 3 years he has completed 0% of the book. So, it could be 4.5 years or infinity.
Posted on 7/19/25 at 5:46 pm to DestrehanTiger
Friends, I’ve finished Fire & Blood. Just started The World of Ice & Fire.
All I have left after this is the Winds sample chapters
All I have left after this is the Winds sample chapters
Posted on 7/22/25 at 12:48 pm to DBG
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Friends, I’ve finished Fire & Blood. Just started The World of Ice & Fire.
All I have left after this is the Winds sample chapters
I picked up the books for the very first time right after the 5th book released which was also around the time the show started I think. Because of the size of the books, I was thinking to myself "by the time I finish these, the next book should be releasing pretty soon". Poor sweet summer child
Posted on 7/23/25 at 2:21 pm to VinegarStrokes
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Because of the size of the books, I was thinking to myself "by the time I finish these, the next book should be releasing pretty soon".
Try Proust's Rememberance Of Things Past.
Posted on 7/30/25 at 10:28 am to VinegarStrokes
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I picked up the books for the very first time right after the 5th book released which was also around the time the show started I think. Because of the size of the books, I was thinking to myself "by the time I finish these, the next book should be releasing pretty soon". Poor sweet summer child
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