George RR Martin’s Winds of Winter newest after fan ‘anxiousness assaults’

May 08, 2023 at 2:26 PM

It’s been 12 years since George RR Martin final printed a guide in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy sequence.

Since Game of Thrones concluded 4 years in the past, the 74-year-old has been reassuring his followers that he’s working exhausting on the following guide, The Winds of Winter.

He additionally claimed to have made important progress in the course of the lockdowns of the pandemic.

So every time the writer shares a weblog replace on how he’s getting on, followers are keen to listen to any news.

This is very the case with the most recent writers’ strike, which he’s addressed in his new publish over the weekend.

Martin shared with followers that House of the Dragon season 2 has not been affected by the writers’ strike for the reason that scripts had been completed months in the past.

However, the opposite Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight has seen its writers’ room shut at some stage in the strike.

The quest is although, does it have an effect on the writer himself in his writing of the already severely delayed The Winds of Winter? He addressed this.

Martin reassured followers: “Some of you, I fear, may be having anxiety attacks just now, on the mistaken assumption that this strike affects WINDS OF WINTER. You can relax.

“The WGA is a union of film and television writers. It has nothing to do with novels, short stories, or any other form of prose fiction, nor comic books and graphic novels, nor stage plays, nor the editing of collections and anthologies I have on-going projects in all those areas, and that work continues unabated. And WINDS continues to be priority number one.”

In December he mentioned he had round 400-500 pages to go together with 1100-1200 already carried out. So it might effectively be one other two or three years to go earlier than publication given it took him 11 years to put in writing two-thirds to three-quarters of the novel.