George R.R. Martin gives update on Winds of Winter in Not a Blog...

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Hey Guys hope you all enjoyed this video!. In this one we go over George R.R. Martin's blog post from 9/9/2024

[xludodownx]

I believe George is a victim of his own success. In another timeline, HBO never picked up Game of Thrones, and George finished the ASOIAF series before 2020.

[gamer.snulch]

I don't think Martin realizes that the books alone are his legacy. All the TV spin-offs will be forgotten in a few years time, the only thing people will look back on in 30 or so years will be his novels and maybe the first 4 seasons of the show. The rest is all supplementary and won't matter at all, especially if the main series remains unfinished.

[thoeer]

GRRM will do literally anything rather than finish the books.
I am less and less enthusiastic about these TV adaptations, they suck and pale in comparison to books.

[booktubeadvocate]

I think the most shocking thing from this update is the fact that George is working on Blood & Fire. Not that I expected him to hold true to his promise that he won’t work on any other books until Winds is finished but I didn’t expect him to start work on Fire and Blood’s sequel already

[jgr]

Hot take: We want TWoW so badly because it holds the last part of the greater ADwD. If Martin publishes Winds in its entirety, the pressure on him to release Dream will be smaller.

[nont]

A man who keeps moaning about his legacy while doing everything but one thing that will actually secure it.

George RR Martin has truly become Tywin Lannister. He is the real self-insert character (despite George wrote him as a cautionary tale), not Sam or Tyrion.

[Depressedinosaur]

Call me petty, but I really don’t care how George feels at this point. He contemplates about his legacy, but still works in a lot of other projects while also saying that his main priority is Winds of Winter, just to contradict himself later by saying that most of his time was spent on television shows. Martin’s legacy will be about a book series that ends in cliffhangers because he couldn’t bring himself to write a fucking conclusion to it.

[thebrain]

He has CHOSEN to take those things on. He has chosen to focus on things other than working on the thing everyone is actually asking for. The pressure on him is of his own making. He can leave TV projects to other people, he can give direction on film projects to other people, but he won’t. He’s in his mid 70’s at some point ya gotta get over all of the external crap and focus on what you want to do.

A mentor of mine once said, “You will make time for the things you ACTUALLY want to do.” It seems like GRRM is making time for everything BUT working on WoW, DoS, B&F, etc.

[YenzQu]

I think this is a good thing. Maybe George finally accepted that he hasn't unlimited time left and that he should stop tinkering around with HBO. He turned 76 yesterday, and his friends start dying around him. He can either be remembered as the American Tolkien or as another guy who started a book series but failed.

[zachutchinson]

The irony that asoiaf has a big tagline of "winter is coming" and yet it very likely never will. 😢

[Rockwall]

He's never finishing Winds of Winter. It's like he can't stay focused or is too scatterbrained. He just jumps from one task to the next without finishing anything

[cxxcxxcxcable]

I abandoned his works, not consuming any media that he produces until he release winds of winter

[kai_johnsonn]

If he wanted to write it - he had a passion for it - it would be written. Simple as that.

A book that you desire to finish would have been completed within the span of 15 years. It is bizarre to have taken this long, considering the story is in motion. It's not as though he is thinking of an entirely new book idea. It's already there.

It is a matter of continuing a story, not starting one.

How many projects do you have that remain unfinished? An essay? A DIY project? Another idea?

Fundamentally, you're not completing it or making progress on it because you have found something better to do, something easier, something more exciting. You don't want to finish that project, deep down. It's a pipe dream.

I would think differently about the ASOIAF situation if George wasn't so negative about it. Every time he speaks about the books it's more from a place of annoyance or irritation. Not a place of desire and excitement.

If he wanted to finish it it would have been finished.

[duepunishment]

He’s never finishing the books. The end.

[Domnc]

13 Years, 4745 Days, 113880 Hours. A lot of Time George

[jamaljames]

Dance of dragons came out in 2011. He does not care about these books. lets be big boys and girls and move on.

[darthJ]

Pretty sure Winds will be released posthumously. He'll work on the other adaptations and maybe Blood and Fire as long as he's alive and then when Winds releases and most likely becomes one of the highest selling books of all time, the proceeds will go to his estate. Dream is indeed a dream but considering the cat will be out of the bag so to speak after Winds he wont literally have to write it we will just theorise the ending ourselves. Dream is more of an epilogue book, just to resolve the story thematically, most of the juicy plot beats will be in Winds. Lets not forget that though he's not finished with Winds he's still done with 1200-1300 pages which is 2 books for any other author 😂 he just hasnt figured out how to wrap it up or more likely he has figured it out but he hasnt worded the wrap-up. So im not too concerned, we will get Winds one way or the other.

[taipaleenmakips]

GRRM is a hobbyist, an extremely talented and successful one, but still a hobbyist, not a pro.

[Saephaan]

The only way that he gets to publish the books is if people stop supporting the shows.

[XError]

GRRM just keeps chasing all kinds of new projects. Within ASOIAF itself, he keeps adding new characters even at a point where he should be reducing the number of characters. Honestly I think he should have just made several smaller series of novels/novellas all set in the same world as Westeros, that way he could explore lots of new characters, rather than trying to tackle such a massive story.