Gaiman and Wedon On Reading, Writers, and Creating
27 Sep 2005, 9:35:10 am
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Time magazine, under the explanation that both have movies coming out, got both Neil Gaiman and Joss Wedon on the phone at the same time. Both are gods of sci-fi writing, Wedon for screen and Gaiman in a variety of media. The two comment on the blurring intersection of mainstream and fringe/genre reading, sci-fi, and fantasy today. Gaiman has a nice quote about the nature of creative writers:Except the trouble is, as a creator...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.
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