George R.R. Martin Gives 'The Winds of Winter' Update

If this sounds like you, then come sit by George R.R. Martin. Martin, you may remember, is suffering from the most public case of writer's block in human history. He's been writing The Winds of Winter, the highly-anticipated penultimate volume in his Game of Thrones series, since at least 2010-and now, 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). "The Winds of Winter is going to be a big book," he wrote on his blog. "The way it is going, it could be bigger than A Storm of Swords or A Dance With Dragons, the longest books in the series to date. I do usually cut and trim once I finish, but I need to finish first."