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lethological714-blog asked:

Hi! I’m a huge fan of your work and am very excited for the Good Omens show. Just out of curiosity, what’s going on at minute 1:57 of the trailer?

neil-gaiman answered:

Page 104 of the book.

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Well, of the edition of the copy of the book I just looked in to see what page it was. It might not be page 104 of your book, obviously. Typefaces and editions change.

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I wish I’d written this Poem (one of a very occasional series)

Overheard on a Salt Marsh

by Harold Monro

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?

Give them me.

No.

Give them me. Give them me.

No.

Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
lie in the mud and howl for them.

Goblin, why do you love them so?

They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man’s fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.

Hush, I stole them out of the moon.

Give me your beads, I want them.

No.

I will howl in a deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.

No.

Overheard on a Salt Marsh poetry
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jaffapims asked:

Hi Neil, I saw a short video from the SXSW panel where you said Gabriel is weirded out by the fact that Aziraphale is eating and asking what and why he’s eating. Does this mean angels don’t eat at all, or is it just Gabriel being Gabriel, trying to ruin Aziraphale’s joy of eating?

I’m sure they can if they want. They just don’t need to, and so they don’t. Aziraphale, on the other hand, does.

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spicy-blanket asked:

Do you have any parenting advice? I'm a first time mother of an almost 7 month old son

neil-gaiman answered:


Don’t worry and enjoy the ride. They tend to learn how to crawl, walk, talk, and so forth, so take the time you might have spent worrying that they won’t, and spend it enjoying what you have instead. They will never be seven months again. (A great age. They’ve learned to smile.) They will never be 12 months or 18 months or 24 months or 40 months again.

Today Ash (aged 3 and a half) discovered pretending people were other things for the first time. He was a Tyrannosaurus, I was a Stegosaurus and his mother was a Diplodocus. As I settled him down in bed for the night he looked up at me and said “Goodnight, Stegosaurus,” and it was the best thing in the world, and it will be swept away by whatever happens tomorrow.

So, whenever you can, enjoy. They will get where they are going in their own time and in their own way.

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@neil-gaiman (and @slothmaggedon in year or two) I highly recommend the picture book How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight by the lovely and prolific canadian author and poet Jane Yolen. Your little dinosaur will love it :)

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I love those books. I’ve known Jane and her family for 31 years now, and she gave me some when Ash was born.(She gave me Owl Moon when Maddy was born, in 1994, which makes me feel old.) I’ve bought him the “How Do Dinosaurs….” she didn’t give me since then, because any books that show kids as dinosaurs in a way that makes them happy is good with me, and Ash loves them even more than I do.

(Jane isn’t Canadian, though. She’s an American, although she spends much of her year in Scotland.)

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taiteilija asked:

Hi! You mentioned that a few years after you and Terry wrote Good Omens you realised that the way you imagined Aziraphale differs from Terry's version? Could you, please, tell us what was the difference? All those fun facts are really curious! Oh, and thank you for your time!

We were talking about casting a Good Omens film in about 1991, and I mentioned that in my head he was probably played by Michael Palin…

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Who looked like this (in A Fish Called Wanda) when we were writing Good Omens. Only blonder…

And Terry said that in his head Aziraphale would look like (but be an English version of) Brian Dennehy (seen here in Cocoon). That he was physically big, not fat, but he took up space.

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And then we talked a lot more about casting and decided that really the best casting for Crowley AND Aziraphale was the late Peter Sellers in both roles. Which was what I took as my touchstone when casting the TV series 30 years later.

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angrylittlesliceofpizza asked:

I'm writing my first novel and it's big and terriffying and after so many years (life got in the way) — I'm just starting to believe it might actually get published some day. (Still not sure I *want* it to be, but that's another problem…) Thing is, all the advice I see for writers talks about The Next Project, or The Previous One… What if there isn't? What if I have just this one big story to tell? What next?

Well done!

Well, you wouldn’t be alone, if that were the case. Lots of authors have only had one story they wanted to tell.

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vfdmuggle asked:

Hi Mr. Gaiman, do you have any tips on rewriting? I'm on the 3rd draft of my first novel, and I see what needs to be fixed, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to fix it. I'm afraid of making specific edits because it might make the story feel disjointed, and I don't want that.

1) pretend you’ve never read it before.

2) read it. Preferably print it out and read it with a pen or pencil in your hand.

3) whenever you run into anything that bugs you as a reader, make a note in the margins.

4) once you’ve finished reading the whole book, think about the whole book. Especially about what didn’t work for you. But also about what did. The things that did work may need to be reinforced.

5) then do your next draft, where you fix whatever didn’t work for you, reinforce the things that did.