George R.R. Martin is not writing any scripts for season six to focus on next book
Words are wind, unless you’re George R.R. Martin. He wrote on his blog that he will not be writing an episode for season six of Game Of Thrones in order to focus on the next installment of his Song Of Ice And Fire series, The Winds Of Winter. Apparently it is known that TV writing would take too much time away from the next book:
After wrestling with it for a month or so, I’ve decided not to script an episode for season six of Game Of Thrones. Writing a script takes me three weeks, minimum, and longer when it is not a straight adaptation from the novels. And really, it would cost me more time than that, since I have never been good at changing gears from one medium to another and back again. Writing a season six script would cost me a month’s work on Winds, and maybe as much as six weeks, and I cannot afford that. With David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Bryan Cogman on board, the scriptwriting chores for season six should be well covered. My energies are best devoted to Winds.