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

He started writing in 1991. This is hardly breakneck. The fact is he spends a lot of time not writing. That is his choice but it doesn't shelter him from criticism. He misses deadline after deadline. He takes advantage of his popularity, something many authors could never afford to do. ETA: I also wonder when books blow up in popularity if the authors and publishers think we need more, more, more when we really just want quality. I think he'd have been better off finishing it in 3-4 books and moving on to a different story. He'd likely be happier, too. He is one of my favorite authors and I would love to see more from him besides ASOIAF.

And like Belle and others mentioned before, he's a dick when that's pointed out.

I don't expect him to ever finish and I'm not sure he expects to. It's one of the reasons I think he let HBO have it when he had so much story left to tell. I haven't loved every change they've made from the books but what they've done the last 2 seasons equals GRRM's writing (maybe surpasses it in some instances). I feel like I'll be satisfied with HBO's ending and will consider it a bonus if either of the last two books are released.