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Posted on 1/30/26 at 11:19 am to BluegrassBelle

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Posted on 1/30/26 at 11:19 am to BluegrassBelle

New (1/15) interview with the asshat by The Hollywood Reporter.

As we've know for a while, he's done.

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Here’s what happens when he sits down to write: “I will open the last chapter I was working on and I’ll say, ‘Oh frick, this is not very good.’ And I’ll go in and I’ll rewrite it. Or I’ll decide, ‘This Tyrion chapter is not coming along, let me write a Jon Snow chapter.’ If I’m not interrupted though, what happens — at least in the past — is sooner or later, I do get into it.”

And reinforced what we already knew that he won't let someone else finish.

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I ask Martin if he’s ever considered simply giving up on the book. It’s your life, George, I say. You don’t have to spend it working on something if you find it torturous.

“I would hate that,” Martin says. “It would feel like a total failure to me. I want to finish.”

Handing the project to another writer — which some fans have lobbied for him to do — isn’t going to happen, Martin says. There is also no secret contingency plan for somebody else to take over if Martin gets struck by lightning. “If that happens, my work won’t be finished,” he says. “It’ll be like The Mystery of Edwin Drood” — referring to Charles Dickens’ unfinished final novel.

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How much further does he have to go? Martin is vague. “If I wound up doing everything in my head, this could be the longest book in the series.”

After asking Martin repeatedly about Winds — seemingly more than he’d like — the author did what he does best. He tells a story.

In 1975, Martin met Dune author Frank Herbert at a book convention and they shared a drink. The meeting was “near the end of Herbert’s life,” Martin says. Herbert had written many acclaimed novels, but all fans seemed to want was more Dune. Herbert’s publisher had just offered him a modest advance for a story he wanted to write, or six times that number for another Dune novel.

“He didn’t like Dune anymore and he didn’t want to write any more Dune books,” Martin says. “But he felt locked in by the success of Dune, so he kept writing them.”

Martin finishes … and waits.

I ask: Do you relate to how Herbert felt?

“I’m not necessarily tired of the world [of Ice and Fire],” he says. “I love the world and the world-building. But, yes, I do.”

He's now bumped Dunk and Egg and Fire and Blood ahead of WOW.

[img]Martin’s thoughts turn, unprompted, to the end of Ice and Fire. It becomes clear that the details of his story’s conclusion, like so much of the saga, remains uncertain.

“I was going to kill more people,” he muses. “Not the ones they killed [in the show]. They made it more of a happy ending. I don’t see a happy ending for Tyrion. His whole arc has been tragic from the first. I was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live …”

His assistant’s car is coming. I ask what he’s doing for Christmas.

“I don’t know,” Martin says. “I think I’ll stay home. I have to write more Dunk and Egg. There’s supposed to be another Fire and Blood book, too. I do think if I can just get some of these other things off my back, I could finish The Winds of Winter pretty soon. It’s been made clear to me that Winds is the priority, but … I don’t know. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for that.”

He sighs. “I’m so far behind on everything.”[/img]

Article is interesting and extremely frustrating all at the same time. Which kind of sums up GRRM in general. I didn't realize he had a falling out with the HoTD showrunner and isn't involved really at all anymore. LINK