my theory on why the winds of winter is taking george such a long time to write is because he had always planned for dany to die, jon to kill her for “the greater good” … GROSS! and then bran becoming king, which i don’t know about the rest of you, is quite possibly the worst ending ever.
he sees the reaction to the ending of the show and thinks ‘fuck what do i do now, everyone hates what i’ve planned, my golden legacy will be thrown out of the window because of this ending’ so, he has to think of alternative endings to make it seem like it was all the producers ideas. he has to suddenly rewrite a HUGE chunk of book dialogue, plot points, themes, hundreds of pages. i understand why he is taking so long.
personally i think we will never see the last book(s) because he knows suddenly he has to justify why him, a self proclaimed ‘feminist’ who writes complex female characters like dany is suddenly killed by jon snow because she went “mad” like her father… couldn’t think of a better trope? and BRAN of all fucking characters becomes king. a huge joke.