The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the TV show of that. Is still alive and just as inexplicably still on Tumblr.
Anonymous asked: Could you please Please gif aziraphale’s gay little gasp when he learns he’s working for nazis it’s the funniest thing in the whole show
Have you seen the honest trailer for sandman on YouTube? Just curious as to what you think of it. I really love that he says "this is what happens when creators have control over their characters' or something to that point. Hope you are doing well. Please remember to stay hydrated. :)
This is probably silly but do you have any advice for aspirant artist that feel like they are not good at their art? I feel like everyone is extremely talented around me and I just gaslit myself into thinking I'm good.
Have a nice day!
Me too, me too. Everyone feels like that. Keep going.
When you sent the start of Good Omens to Terry, did you have a sense of what sort of thing it would turn out to be? Did it feel like the start of a novel, or was it self-contained enough to be a short story?
It was the opening of a novel. If Sandman hadn’t been greenlighted, I would have kept going with it.
Do you have any tips on writing a book where the main character is not the protagonist? (I hope that makes sense)
Like where the MC doesn't have any special powers or magical artifact. Where they're not a part of some big prophecy, they're just... there.
Where they are dragged into a new world and have no idea whats happening the entire time.
I haven't been able to figure out how to do that and have them have agency or importance in the story.
So far they don't have any impact on the plot at all, which I feel like that makes them useless and so I should just remove them entirely and pick a new MC but I don't want to do that.
Any tips or advice or recommendations on books that have done similar things?
I kind of did it in Neverwhere, with Richard Mayhew. It’s a real balancing act. I don’t envy you. It can help when we see things through their eyes.
Hi Neil. I just had the "Who is Neil Gaiman? I think he was in Arthur" post come across my dash again (for about the 6th or 7th time), and as someone who is only slightly aware of what "Arthur" is, I'm really curious about the context of it... why WERE you in a falafel anyway?
