{"id":7281,"date":"2026-08-04T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:55:41","slug":"george-rr-martin-opens-up-about-battle-depression-after-stressful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/08\/04\/george-rr-martin-opens-up-about-battle-depression-after-stressful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"George R.R. Martin opens up about battle with \u2018sadness and depression\u2019 after \u2018stressful\u2019 year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George R.R. Martin returned to his infamous Not a Blog site with his first personal update in six months, saying he\u2019s been battling with \u201csadness and depression\u201d after a full-on year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The author of the iconic A Song of Ice and Fire novels has had a lot on his plate, between HBO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/house-of-the-dragon\/\">House of the Dragon<\/a> and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series to the ongoing demands for him to finish The Winds of Winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin has expressed stress over these demands, even describing the next Ice and Fire novel as the \u201ccurse of my life\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s also been busy with other projects, including the new stage production of <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/game-of-thrones\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a>: The Mad King.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George R.R. Martin Gives Winds of Winter Update\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WxPeoi1Gz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But rather than naming specific titles that have been causing him stress, the author discussed an overall sense of \u201cfalling further and further behind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a while, I know. My last blog post went up here on February 19. The posts that came after were made by my mighty minions,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am lucky enough to have a great staff of assistants\u2026 though even with their help, I kept falling further and further behind. This year has been\u2026 stressful, to say the least.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin noted how \u201cso much has been happening, it\u2019s been overwhelming,\u201d and that while there have been many \u201cexciting things\u201d and \u201cdreams coming true\u201d, there have been \u201cnightmares too\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have lost friends. Battled sadness and depression. The worst may be yet to come. I turned seventy-seven last September, and I tell you, getting old is no fun,\u201d Martin continued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He did celebrate the fact that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms received nine nominations for the 2026 Emmys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI hope to attend\u2026 but that depends on\u2026 well, on a lot of things\u2026 I am proud of our team, and hope we take home a few of the statues, but I will confess that I was hoping we\u2019d get a few of the acting nominations as well. But there\u2019s always next year,\u201d he finished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7285\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7285\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dunk and Egg in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin also clarified that there\u2019s even more to catch fans up on, which he\u2019ll try to do even if they\u2019re short posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI suppose that\u2019s just life. Of course, I knew that. If you\u2019ve read my stories, you know that,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/george-rr-martin\/\">GRRM<\/a> often gets a hard time for not finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/04\/28\/theres-a-reason-the-winds-of-winter-isnt-happening-and-we-need-to-stop-ignoring-it\/\">Winds of Winter<\/a>, many fans are expressing support for him since his candid post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry to hear he\u2019s having a rough year. I wish him all the best,\u201d one wrote on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gameofthrones\/comments\/1vf2hwr\/george_rr_martin_updates_his_blog_for_the_first\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reddit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another said, \u201cSame here. As much as people complain about him, I can&#8217;t help but to feel empathetic as I too hate my job sometimes and would take any side quest available to avoid it. I hope nothing but the best for him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe&#8217;s also 77 and most retire at 65,\u201d added a third. \u201cTrying to finish a story you started 30 years ago must be wild.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, <\/i><i><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/span><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image credit: Creative Commons\/Gage Skidmore\/HBO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The worst may be yet to come&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[168,173,174,11],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-george-rr-martin","tag-house-of-the-dragon","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>George R.R. 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