In 2012, speaking with the Spanish blog Adria’s News, Martin claimed that The Winds of Winter would arrive in 2014, though he did couch that promise in, “I am really bad for predictions” (just wait, this is going to become a theme). I’ve repeatedly been guilty of an excess of optimism.” How young we were in 2011! How naive! Then, in 2011, the first rumbles of trouble: in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he declined to give a timeline on when fans could expect the sixth book, saying, “There’s an element of fans who don’t seem to realize I’m making estimates. Our story begins in 2010, when Martin gleefully announced on his blog that four chapters of The Winds of Winter were complete. Just how did Martin dig himself into this hole? Allow me to take you back in time, dear reader, on a journey through the ghosts of deadlines past.

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The 25 Best Game of Thrones Characters, Ranked.He also revealed that this will be the longest Game of Thrones title yet, calling it 'a monstrous book as big as a dragon.' Recently, in a livestream arranged by his publisher, Martin claimed that The Winds of Winter is 'about three-quarters of the way done,' although he's hesitant to provide a release date for fear of disappointing his readers. He’s been writing The Winds of Winter, the highly-anticipated penultimate volume in his Game of Thrones series, since at least 2010-and lately, as if to make up for over a decade of missed deadlines, he’s speaking out on how the book is worth the wait (funny, I think I told my British Lit professor the same thing when I needed an extension). Martin, you may remember, is suffering from the most public case of writer’s block in human history.

If this sounds like you, then come sit by George R.R.

Have you ever added extra spaces on an essay to meet a minimum page requirement? Sneakily increased the font size on periods to pad your page count? Claimed to be working toward a deadline when you most definitely, assuredly were not? Procrastinators, boss-havers, degenerate undergraduates, lend me your ears.

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