"A Song of Ice and Fire" fans have been waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish writing "The Winds of Winter" for over a decade now; the last book in the series, "A Dance with Dragons," came out in 2011, the same year that "Game of Thrones" premiered on HBO.
At this point, the book has almost become a legend in its own time, an unfinished totem that lives in the imagination. But Martin is himself still working on it, and is confident enough that he's publishing little updates on his blog. "Finally finished a clutch of Cersei chapters that were giving me fits," he wrote the other day. "Now I am wrestling with Jaime and Brienne. The work proceeds, though not as fast as many of you would like."
