George RR Martin working on 'Winds of Winter'

'GoT' author taking advantage of covid-19 lockdowns

Famed author George RR Martin has revealed that his lockdown phase has resulted in his "best work yet" with his long-awaited and promised novel Winds of Winter, reported Entertainment Weekly.

Updating die-hard Game of Thrones fans online, Martin updated on his blog saying, “I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of Winds of Winter in 2020. The best year I've had since I began it. Why? I don't know. Maybe the isolation. Or maybe I just got on a roll. Sometimes, I do get on a roll."

The previous novels, A Song of Ice and Fire and A Dance with Dragons, came out in 2011. Since the pandemic prevailed and lockdown kicked off everywhere, the author has written hundreds and hundreds of pages. "I need to keep rolling, though," Martin wrote. "I still have hundreds of more pages to write to bring the novel to a satisfactory conclusion. That's what 2021 is for, I hope."

"I will make no predictions on when I will finish," Martin added. "Every time I do, netizens on the internet take that as a 'promise,' and then wait eagerly to crucify me when I miss the deadline. All I will say is that I am hopeful." Martin also has other work in the pipeline: HBO is looking to order more Game of Thrones prequels.