George R.R. Martin hopes Winds of Winter will be finished next year but there’s "a long way to go"

GRRM gives a major up♚date on Winds of Winter, while also mentioning the Game o♋f Thrones prequel

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The world may have undergone several major shifts in recent mont🎀hs but one thing remains eternal: George R.R. Martin is still writing Winds of Winter. The sixth (and penultimate) book in the Song of Ice and Fire series still doesn’t have a set ♒release date, though the author has given a major update on how it’s progressing.

“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,” Martin wrote . “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 aღ huge book, and I still have a long way to go.”

While the undertaking remains massive, Martin offered up a message of hope for those hoping to catch up on events covered in part by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game of Thrones season 8.

Expressing regre🐼t at not being able to attend CoNZealand, he said, “I can alwaysꩵ visit Wellington next year, when I hope that both Covid-19 and The Winds of Winter will be done.”

So, still very much TBD on Martin’s part, though work is getting done. That’s a start. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game of Thrones prequel, T✤he House of the Dragon, is also still “flying along wonderfu💙lly” and being written by Ryan Condal and his staff of writers.

2020 has offered up many strange and significant developments, but Winds of Winter hitting bookshelves ♈won’t be one of them. Still, the future of Westeros 𝓡is looking perhaps brighter than it did yesterday.

Look forward to the rest of 2020 with our rundown of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new TV shows coming your way.

Bradley Russell
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