George RR Martin hopes to finish Winds of Winter before his new show comes out.

While I do believe we will actually see Winds of Winter I have already come to terms and accepted he will be gone before we ever get A Dream of Spring and see the conclusion. I have made peace with it. There is nothing else to do rather than just accept it because I just flat out know he isn't going to be around long enough to finish it.

I mean we never know when any of us will be gone but at least in a situation like with Patrick Rothfuss I feel he is young enough and we are only waiting on one more book that I feel like that will eventually happen.

But George is 75 and not in exactly good physical shape. I feel like even under the best scenario he would be 80 for the final book. And again that would be an ideal scenario where he knocks it out in 3 or 4 years which we know he won't do.

I remember back when I was younger and I felt like Stephen King was dragging out The Dark Tower series when the 3rd book had just come out. At that point it was 3 books in a 9 year period. Looking back the longest gap in the series was 6 years and he finished the final 3 books in a 2 year period. I actually didn't know how good I had it lol.

And on that note I disliked the ending of The Dark Tower so much after being invested in it for 20+ years that maybe George not finishing the main series is a good thing. I can just forever reread it and enjoy it like I do now without a disappointing ending.