The writing history is getting ridiculously long

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It’s several screens on my iPad. We’re not talking about the novel of the century here. 82.36.70.45 (talk) 19:34, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

we might be...... 80.189.136.3 (talk) 17:57, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nah. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 13:11, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think by "novel of the century" the commenter above you meant "a novel that takes a century to write"! I think they may be too optimistic, too! The andf (talk) 21:11, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Haha! SFandLogicReader (talk) 16:33, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ha ha, nevertheless it’s good to know that Martin has the majority of it done with him last having 1100-1200 pages done (unless he revised/rewrote them) or 75%. While it would be sad, if Martin passed away you would still have a lot of Martin’s material to release in some form no doubt even if he doesn’t finish Winds. Dream, absolutely forget it. Mobfighter63 (talk) 19:17, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have known authors publishing when they were 20 years older. Although they were thin. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 19:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps not, but of the decade surely? Mobfighter63 (talk) 21:03, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He lied

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Are we allowed to state that "he lied about his progress" when that's demonstrably true? SlapperDapper (talk) 22:53, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How so? I've been saying for years that he's probably never going to finish it and that if he does it's not going to be the book of the century, but I don't know that he lied. And even if he did, in Wikipedia you need reliable sources saying so. Cheers. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 15:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In what way is it demonstrably true? — Czello (music) 15:17, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No updates for 2024?

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We are already in mid-July and 2024 is the only year since 2010 for which there is no update in the article. Please add something. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 13:15, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at this more objectively, we can’t take these possible hints, clues, and replies and put them all in this wiki page. I doubt that readers are going to find Martin posting a rose on his blog, WoW, his comments about having the book out before people start buying a chocolate version of him to eat, him talking about dragons and their role in Winds, etc, credible and reliable enough for it to be significant to use here. I personally don’t mind the long pages of this book’s development but it’s long enough. It’s an important novel for millions of people, no doubt the shows have garnered more hype, but it’s not the Bible even still. Mobfighter63 (talk) 19:02, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. Plus I don’t think there’s any real news this year. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 19:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Still probably more progress here this year than what was made on the book itself. 2605:4A80:B401:AE41:FCD7:4AD9:DACB:7FB3 (talk) 23:17, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source

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Hi! I added a source for the lenght in pages being manuscript pages, not book pages, but don't know how to format it in the References list to put a title to it and make it nice. Please help. SFandLogicReader (talk) 16:30, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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