ZephyrFate said:With how much he has set things up for Winds of Winter, I have no doubt that it's not only going to be a much quicker book to write, but that a lot of shit is going to happen as well as plotlines resolved. It's practically inevitable.
And to keep going this 5000th argument about it.
With ADWD, he had "half the book written already" by the time AFFC was released, and it would be released "next year".
The people you are arguing with here are not hopeless pessimists. They are people who have become embittered through experience. People who went through cycles of optimism over and over with ADWD, just to have those hopes dashed again and again. I wish I could be optimistic about the next book coming out in 3 years, but I just don't have it in me anymore. If you want to be a standard-bearer of optimism about this series, then go for it. But don't expect many of us long-suffering fans to be right behind you.