SHOCKING NEWS: GRRM not done with 'Winds of Winter,' will not come out before S6 of GoT
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http://grrm.livejournal.com/465247.html
THE WINDS OF WINTER is not finished.
Believe me, it gave me no pleasure to type those words. You're disappointed, and you're not alone. My editors and publishers are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my agents and foreign publishers and translators are disappointed... but no one could possibly be more disappointed than me. For months now I have wanted nothing so much as to be able to say, "I have completed and delivered THE WINDS OF WINTER" on or before the last day of 2015.
But the book's not done.
Nor is it likely to be finished tomorrow, or next week. Yes, there's a lot written. Hundreds of pages. Dozens of chapters. (Those 'no pages done' reports were insane, the usual garbage internet journalism that I have learned to despise). But there's also a lot still left to write. I am months away still... and that's if the writing goes well. (Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't.) Chapters still to write, of course... but also rewriting. I always do a lot of rewriting, sometimes just polishing, sometimes pretty major restructures.
By KingGondo Go To PostI'm at peace with the fact that he may never finish.i wrote exactly the same on the other board.
i don't expect to read the end of that story and that's fine.
By Smokey Go To PostDidn't he tell a few very high ups at HBO how it ends in case he dies or something?they know, more or less i guess.
the new series is coming out in april with content beyond the books.
By Smokey Go To PostDidn't he tell a few very high ups at HBO how it ends in case he dies or something?
Yup. He knew the HBA series would pass him up and HBO made him sell his vision of the end. I think he's toyed with going beyond a book 7 in all video form too. I haven't read the books so this news really doesn't affect me. I've heard they kinda got worse as the series went on anyway.
By Fenderputty Go To PostYup. He knew the HBA series would pass him up and HBO made him sell his vision of the end. I think he's toyed with going beyond a book 7 in all video form too. I haven't read the books so this news really doesn't affect me. I've heard they kinda got worse as the series went on anyway.They do but it's only compared to the first three books, which was inevitable IMO.
Still well worth reading. They just lose the focus and direction the first three books had.