Just shoot me now
In a 1/1/2003 entry of Neil Gaiman's journal, he writes: "Wasn’t a big fan of 2002, really. It seemed sort of bitty and like I didn’t do very much..."
He then describes how he only wrote 5 short stories, rewrote another, wrote scripts for almost 200 pages of comics, wrote 4 drafts of a screenplay adaption of a Nicholson Baker novel, a 2d draft of a screenplay adapting one of his comics stories, the first draft of another screenplay, several treatments of another movie project, directed a short film, did a book tour, won the Hugo and other awards, wrote some songs, and more. At least he has the good grace to conclude: "Hmm. I suppose that looking it over, it’s not that bad. I mean, I did a lot of things in 2002." (Of course, graciousness from Mr. Gaiman comes as no surprise.)
Meanwhile, the 19-year-old author of a self-published fantasy novel just signed $500,000 book deal (link via Boing Boing.)
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