The Wanlorn (
the_wanlorn) wrote2005-09-28 12:24 pm
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Can Y'all Tell When I Have Lotsa HW Due?
Here's an interview with Tim Magazine, Joss Whedon, and Neil Gaimen. A wee sample: NG: [...] I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different. [...] JW: I miss a little of that element, the danger of, oh, I'm holding this science fiction magazine that's got this great cover. There a little bit of something just on the edge that I'm doing this. That's pretty much gone. Although when I walk into a restaurant with a stack of comic books, I still do get stared at a little bit. [...] JW: [...] Although we still occasionally get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and you really can't explain that. NG: Or Cat Woman. JW: Oh my God. |
