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Akkerman wrote:

It is the pandemic news we have all been needing: George RR Martin is using his hours of confinement to work on his long-awaited Game of Thrones novel, The Winds of Winter.

“For those of you who may be concerned for me personally … yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population [for coronavirus infection], given my age and physical condition. But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions,” the 71-year-old author told fans on his website. “Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day. Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms … but maybe not as grim as they may become here.”

The most recent, fifth novel in Martin’s bestselling fantasy series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in 2011. With fan numbers rapidly swelling as a result of the HBO television adaptation that ran between 2011 and 2019, many have been waiting for the sixth instalment with bated breath for almost a decade.

Martin said he was currently “off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going into town or seeing anyone”. He has closed his cinema, the Jean Cocteau in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but is keeping his bookshop, Beastly Books, “open for the time being”. All planned signings and readings are cancelled for the store, although its mail order service remains open.

eldanielfire wrote:

Akkerman wrote:

It is the pandemic news we have all been needing: George RR Martin is using his hours of confinement to work on his long-awaited Game of Thrones novel, The Winds of Winter.

“For those of you who may be concerned for me personally … yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population [for coronavirus infection], given my age and physical condition. But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions,” the 71-year-old author told fans on his website. “Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day. Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms … but maybe not as grim as they may become here.”

The most recent, fifth novel in Martin’s bestselling fantasy series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in 2011. With fan numbers rapidly swelling as a result of the HBO television adaptation that ran between 2011 and 2019, many have been waiting for the sixth instalment with bated breath for almost a decade.

Martin said he was currently “off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going into town or seeing anyone”. He has closed his cinema, the Jean Cocteau in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but is keeping his bookshop, Beastly Books, “open for the time being”. All planned signings and readings are cancelled for the store, although its mail order service remains open.

Please. Don't post hope. It's been 9 years since Dance with Dragons. I won't believe anything that muther fucker claims about book 6.

ElementFreak wrote:

eldanielfire wrote:

Akkerman wrote:

It is the pandemic news we have all been needing: George RR Martin is using his hours of confinement to work on his long-awaited Game of Thrones novel, The Winds of Winter.

“For those of you who may be concerned for me personally … yes, I am aware that I am very much in the most vulnerable population [for coronavirus infection], given my age and physical condition. But I feel fine at the moment, and we are taking all sensible precautions,” the 71-year-old author told fans on his website. “Truth be told, I am spending more time in Westeros than in the real world, writing every day. Things are pretty grim in the Seven Kingdoms … but maybe not as grim as they may become here.”

The most recent, fifth novel in Martin’s bestselling fantasy series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in 2011. With fan numbers rapidly swelling as a result of the HBO television adaptation that ran between 2011 and 2019, many have been waiting for the sixth instalment with bated breath for almost a decade.

Martin said he was currently “off by myself in a remote isolated location, attended by one of my staff, and I’m not going into town or seeing anyone”. He has closed his cinema, the Jean Cocteau in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but is keeping his bookshop, Beastly Books, “open for the time being”. All planned signings and readings are cancelled for the store, although its mail order service remains open.

Please. Don't post hope. It's been 9 years since Dance with Dragons. I won't believe anything that muther fucker claims about book 6.

At this point I won't get hyped until the book is in my hand, and even then I doubt I'll be as hyped as I once would have been.

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

camroc1 wrote:

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

The problem always was the holding pattern until he could contrive the final battles : Arya wandering around Westoros and then onto Braavos. Daenarys wandering around the free cities etc.etc Brandon becoming a tree and then returning .

camroc1 wrote:

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

The problem always was the holding pattern until he could contrive the final battles : Arya wandering around Westoros and then onto Braavos. Daenarys wandering around the free cities etc.etc Brandon becoming a tree and then returning .

crash 669 wrote:Even if he writes the frigging thing I don't hope he can write himself out of the corner he put himself in. Too many aimless storylines, not enough engaging characters, too much bloat.

crash 669 wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

The problem always was the holding pattern until he could contrive the final battles : Arya wandering around Westoros and then onto Braavos. Daenarys wandering around the free cities etc.etc Brandon becoming a tree and then returning .

From the books I'd asumed he was staying in the far north. The ability to see through the Wierwoods and the importance of the isle of faces were played up in such a way as to suggest this was how Bran would interact with the world.

But then of course once the show's teleporters got invented all that went out of the window.

eldanielfire wrote:

crash 669 wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

The problem always was the holding pattern until he could contrive the final battles : Arya wandering around Westoros and then onto Braavos. Daenarys wandering around the free cities etc.etc Brandon becoming a tree and then returning .

From the books I'd asumed he was staying in the far north. The ability to see through the Wierwoods and the importance of the isle of faces were played up in such a way as to suggest this was how Bran would interact with the world.

But then of course once the show's teleporters got invented all that went out of the window.

Yeah, I'd like to know how those are important. The show ignored them and crapped on Bran's arc anyway, just like the crapped on the white walker threat.

As lockdown eases around the world, George RR Martin has revealed he is currently isolating in “an actual cabin in the mountains” and hopes to finish his long-awaited fantasy novel The Winds of Winter “next year”.

Martin said he was spending “long hours every day” working on the book, which will be the sixth in his series A Song of Ice and Fire. Set in the fantasy kingdom of Westeros and its environs, peopled by warring factions, occasional dragons and direwolves, the bestselling fantasy series was adapted by HBO into the television series Game of Thrones. Although the television storyline concluded a year ago, fans have been waiting for The Winds of Winter, the penultimate book in the series before A Dream of Spring, since the publication of A Dance With Dragons in 2011.

Martin, 71, wrote on his blog that his “enforced isolation” in his cabin has helped him write, and that he is “making steady progress” with the story. “I finished a new chapter yesterday, another one three days ago, another one the previous week. But no, this does not mean that the book will be finished tomorrow or published next week. It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go,” he told fans, warning them not to “give any credence to any of the click-bait websites that like to parse every word of my posts as if they were papal encyclicals to divine hidden meanings”.

Floppykid wrote:

eldanielfire wrote:

crash 669 wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

Floppykid wrote:The whole thing should've been 3 - 5 books at most.
He lost interest and direction after the third book/red wedding.

The problem always was the holding pattern until he could contrive the final battles : Arya wandering around Westoros and then onto Braavos. Daenarys wandering around the free cities etc.etc Brandon becoming a tree and then returning .

From the books I'd asumed he was staying in the far north. The ability to see through the Wierwoods and the importance of the isle of faces were played up in such a way as to suggest this was how Bran would interact with the world.

But then of course once the show's teleporters got invented all that went out of the window.

Yeah, I'd like to know how those are important. The show ignored them and crapped on Bran's arc anyway, just like the crapped on the white walker threat.

The white walker thread did turn out to be a load of horseshit, and I actually was one of the few that really enjoyed Bran's ADWD plot.
But I think ultimately GRRM inteded to go / end the same with the WW.

Jim Lahey wrote:I’ve held off watching the shows waiting for the fat f**k to finish the books for so long now I can’t remember most of what happened in the last book. Some bad kunts picked up Daenarys at the end didn’t they?

Jim Lahey wrote:I’ve held off watching the shows waiting for the fat f**k to finish the books for so long now I can’t remember most of what happened in the last book. Some bad kunts picked up Daenarys at the end didn’t they?

Boobs not Moobs wrote:

Jim Lahey wrote:I’ve held off watching the shows waiting for the fat f**k to finish the books for so long now I can’t remember most of what happened in the last book. Some bad kunts picked up Daenarys at the end didn’t they?

I've no idea, I read it in 2011 I think Lady Stoneheart had something to do with it, Dany story got hugely boring in the books.

JM2K6 wrote:

Boobs not Moobs wrote:

Jim Lahey wrote:I’ve held off watching the shows waiting for the fat f**k to finish the books for so long now I can’t remember most of what happened in the last book. Some bad kunts picked up Daenarys at the end didn’t they?

I've no idea, I read it in 2011 I think Lady Stoneheart had something to do with it, Dany story got hugely boring in the books.

In the books???

HighKingLeinster wrote:

JM2K6 wrote:

Boobs not Moobs wrote:

Jim Lahey wrote:I’ve held off watching the shows waiting for the fat f**k to finish the books for so long now I can’t remember most of what happened in the last book. Some bad kunts picked up Daenarys at the end didn’t they?

I've no idea, I read it in 2011 I think Lady Stoneheart had something to do with it, Dany story got hugely boring in the books.

In the books???

At least you could see her tits in the show rather than some weird description of "her perksome chest heaved like a well cooked lamprey pie"

If nothing else, the enforced isolation has helped me write. I am spending long hours every day on THE WINDS OF WINTER, and making steady progress. I finished a new chapter yesterday, another one three days ago, another one the previous week. But no, this does not mean that the book will be finished tomorrow or published next week. It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go.

tabascoboy wrote:From GRRMs blog

If nothing else, the enforced isolation has helped me write. I am spending long hours every day on THE WINDS OF WINTER, and making steady progress. I finished a new chapter yesterday, another one three days ago, another one the previous week. But no, this does not mean that the book will be finished tomorrow or published next week. It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go.

Makes you wonder if without lockdown he'd have actually worked on the book at all...