GRRM admits that the last time he wrote any new ASOIAF content was in December 2022
"I'd have them finished": Game of Thrones author George RR Martin says the one thing he'd change about A Song of Ice and Fire is the same thing we've wanted for 13 years
Not really a big surprise. But still, a sobering reminder of the current state of the book series.
He loves writing worlds more than characters.
The reason got sucked aside from dnd is he wrote himself in a corner. "Mereneese knot" forget where I heard that describes this issue of getting all the characters together and across the sea in a way that made sense.
It couldn't, then all the hype and everything else and fuck all I wouldn't want to write it either.
He captured lightning in a bottle for a short period then it grew beyond control.
Good article on the Meereenese Knot: https://meereeneseblot.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/untangling-the-meereenese-knot-part-i-who-poisoned-the-locusts/
Fun read, thanks for sharing!
Will give it a read! Looks interesting.