Saturday, October 12, 2002
I did about 1,200 words on "Andromeda Among the Stones" yesterday, which was good. I hope to have the story finally finished on Tuesday. Its title hasn't changed on me again.
Richard Kirk, by the way, has agreed to illustrate the next short story collection. I appreciate continuity. This will be the fourth book we've done together.
I spent part of this morning looking over the black-and-white galleys for Part Two of Bast: Eternity Game. I'm very happy with the way that the Egyptian mythology sections have been handled. I think it's going to be a nice-looking book. And I also think that The Dreaming is far enough in my past now (going on two years since I finished the script for #60) that I can once again appreciate comics, in general, and my work in comics, in particular. I was afraid that wouldn't be so, that I wouldn't be able to look at Bast and like what I've done, simply because closure was so rough on The Dreaming, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Perhaps I owe you all a bit of an apology for yesterday's post, if only because it's the sort of personal gushing I find so distasteful in public "journals," the sort of thing I've spent so much time complaining about online. I thought about deleting the seventh paragraph, but that didn't seem quite honest, now that it's out there. Too revisionist. So, forgive the lapse. I'll see it doesn't happen again.
I'm also coming down off a frantic month of work on the "Save Farscape" campaign. I never intended to give it a month of my life, to the exclusion of almost everything else. It just sort of happened. But last Saturday night at The Chamber was worth it, I think (by the way, if you're interested, there are some photos, including me as a Nebari, at the photos page of my website). The AC died early in the evening and, in all that leather, fur, make-up, and wig, the heat was almost unbearable. Anyway, my only real regret, besides having gotten so dreadfully behind in my work, is the mentality and behavior of some of the fans that I had to work with. In any such group I suppose it's inevitable that there is a minority more interested in trying to cadge a little scrap of fame off a star than attending to the task at hand - in this case, promoting the show and working to save it from cancellation. Most of the people I've worked with were fantastic, but the few who were in it for themselves, and were more than willing to hurt other people and the cause to get closer to the cast members, well, it's a pathetic, ugly thing to watch, and it may have left such a bad taste in my mouth that I'll steer clear of being a central part of such efforts in the future. It's one thing to want to thank an actor for giving you something that you've greatly enjoyed, it's another to try to spackle over the holes in your own sense of self-worth by making an ass of yourself. But, as I said, overall, the people I've worked with in Atlanta and on various websites, the people who helped us with The Chamber, almost everyone was great. There's a more detailed list of thank-yous on the rally page at Nebari.Net.
We're at the very end of summer now, aren't we? These hurricanes seem to be blowing the heat away. The trees will start to turn soon. Already, it's getting dark so much earlier. I feel I somehow managed to miss almost an entire summer this year. I think it was losing myself in the end of Low Red Moon.
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