Winter Winds: George RR Martin wrote hundreds of pages in 2020, but there’s still a lot to do

George RR Martin shared an update on The Winds of Winter, the sixth installment in his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire which has been adapted into HBO’s Game of Thrones, revealing that he has written “hundreds and hundreds” of pages in 2020. Not a blog entry that although he has made a lot of progress in The Winds of Winter, he still has “hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion.”

Despite this, he claims 2020 has been “the best year I have had on WOW since I started.”

He hopes to reach this “satisfactory conclusion” in 2021, but makes no predictions on when he will complete the long-awaited novel.

“Every time I do that, the assholes on the internet take this as a ‘promise’ and then eagerly wait to crucify me when I miss the deadline. All I’ll say is I have some good luck. hope.” Martin wrote.

Martin also discussed the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on him and his loved ones, Trump, and how he has “a million other things to do as well.”

Martin shared a similar sentiment last year, hoping that “COVID-19 and The Winds of Winter will be over” in 2021.

For more on Game of Thrones, check out the news of a Game of Thrones animated series, a possible Game of Thrones prequel with a “Tales of Dunk and Egg” series, and what Martin thinks is his favorite scene from Game of Thrones.

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