I will make no predictions on when I will finish.

I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion.

Since that deadline has passed with no Winds, the writer is now reverting back to his usual policy of “no predictions,” writing: In 2019, he told New Zealanders that they could imprison him in a small cabin overlooking a lake of sulfuric acid if the book wasn’t done by the summer of 2020. Martin has sounded optimistic in previous blog entries. Since then, Thrones has wrapped up its eight-season run, and yet The Winds of Winter remains elusive. A Dance With Dragons arrived in summer of 2011, just a month after the first season of HBO’s adaptation Game of Thrones premiered. It has been a long, interminable wait for the sixth installment in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. “The best year I’ve had on WOW since I began it. “I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of THE WINDS OF WINTER in 2020,” Martin writes. Still, amid all the melancholy and sadness of Martin’s latest dispatch, there is this bit of good news. The post’s title “Reflections on a Bad Year” pretty much says it all. Despite crafting the rich and expansive Westeros, Martin still lives in the same world as we do – pandemic and all. The reasons for the delay are understandable. This year, Martin seemed to have taken the year off before publishing this surprise post in February. In years past, the author has taken to providing year-end updates on his writing progress. Martin took to his charmingly outdated Livejournal blog, fittingly titled “Not a Blog”, to give an update on The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Martin emerged from his den to let us know if Winter was on the way… The Winds of Winter that is. For, just like Punxsutawney Phil, beloved Game of Thronesauthor George R.R. That’s the day when a beleaguered, snow-stricken nation casts its eyes to a Midwestern meteorological rodent, who then communicates to us whether spring is on the horizon or winter will last for six more weeks.įunnily enough, this year’s Groundhog Day also indulged another increasingly frequent tradition. February 2 is an important date on the United States calendar.

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