George RR Martin seems to be very busy doing a lot of things in the world, except writing the much-awaited The Winds of Winter. Fans and bookworms alike have been in a long waiting game for the sixth installment to the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, but will it still come to fruition?
Martin has taken many jobs from HBO to executive producing and more, keeping fans hanging for The Winds of Winter's release. What irate the awaiting fans more is that he has been promoting different books instead of finishing his own.
It has been a decade since the epic fantasy writer dropped the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, and since then, everyone has looked forward to the release of the next installment. However, fans are still waiting in vain until today.
Recently, he shared a blog post on Twitter, where he promoted Laura J. Mixon's book, titled Ripple Effects. According to BlockToro, fans have no issue if Martin helps other writers promote their books, but they just want him to focus on completing A Song of Ice and Fire series before doing other things.
The 72-year-old novelist managed to dedicate an entire page of a blog to talk about Mixon's new novel. This made his readers enraged, thinking he could have spent writing this blog entry continuing The Winds of Winter instead to make some progress.
Last month, Martin updated his web journal and talked about falling "further and further behind." Though he didn't mention anything about his more-than-a-decade-in-the-making novel, many believed it had something to do with it.
He said when a lot of stuff happened, he fell further behind and he was "hugely behind right now," Entertainment Weekly noted. The idea of trying to catch up gave even him the feeling of "increasingly oppressive."
The last time Martin gave an official update about The Winds of Winter was in February. Here, he said he had written "hundreds and hundreds of pages" after being stuck at home due to the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
However, he still had "hundreds more pages" to write to finish in 2021. With the number of failed deadlines Martin had set before, he didn't want to give any possible release date this time.
To recall, when he dropped A Dance with Dragons in 2011, Martin hoped the last two books, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, would be out sooner than the fifth book, which took six years to make, per The Ringer.
He posed it would only take him a maximum of three years to finish it off, but a decade had passed, and it had yet to hit the shelves. As to how Old Nan put it, "Oh, my sweet summer children. What do you know of long waits?"
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