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It's all basically semantics. There are 18 total total episodes left in the entire series.
Season 6 is 20 episodes long with a lengthy break inbetween episodes 10 and 11.
Season 1 was only 9 episodes long.
Season 2 was 10 episodes long.
Season 3 was 10 episodes long.
Season 4 was 20 episodes long (with a 5 month break inbetween episodes 10 and 11)
Season 5 is also 20 episodes long (with a break of an undefined period of time inbetween episodes 10 and 11)
You could instead look at the whole series as really being 7 seasons instead of only 5 (since the last two seasons are double the length of the first 3 seasons), but either way there are only 18 total episodes left.
In the cast discussion they said Michael Hirst is writing it all. Apparently he writes faster than GRRM.