Game of Thrones ꦕauthor George R.R. Martin doesn't know if he'll 💛ever finish The Winds of Winter, the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy series.

The 13-year wait for The Winds of Winter has been increasingly daunting for fans, with sporadic updates from Martin ranging from hopeful to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:remorseful to dowཧnright grim, aღs is the case with this latest update.

, Martin for the first time expressed doubt that he'll ever finish writing the next entry in the series.

"Unfortunately, I am 13 🦂years late," he said. "Every time I say that, I'm [like], 'How could I be 13 years late?' I don't know,💫 it happens a day at a time."

He added, "But that’s still a priority. A l💜ot of people are already writing obituaries for me. [They'⛎re saying] 'Oh, he'll never be finished.' Maybe they're right. I don't know. I'm alive right now! I seem pretty vital!"

Thankfully, Martin offered on🧸e small crumb of encouragement by saying he'll never retire, joking that he's "not a golfer."

There's some question about the impact the negative reaction to HBO's Game of Thrones TV show finale has had on Martin's writing. The author revealed a couple of years b🐲ack that the books are drifting "further and further away" from the TV show, so it's very possible the lengthy delay is related to that.

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