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spectorstranges asked:

Hello, our esteemed david tennant centric pyromaniac, Mr. Gaiman—

I was reading over Make Good Art again recently since ive hit that moment in my young adult life where ive gone into full panic lockdown mode over my writing “not being good enough”. I’ll read snippets of other peoples work and feel like I’m not getting anywhere with my own, so I guess my question is: how do you stop comparing yourself to others? I feel like seeing better writing should make me want to improve, but as of now it just wants to make me hide from my own work.

Hope all is well with you and those angels and demons running about in scotland :)

I suggest finding some really badly-written books that have been published. Compare yourself with those instead.

“If that can get published than I can get published …” is a much better starting point than “everyone is better than me”.

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kilgarraghforever asked:

Hello, Mr Gaiman, sir!

I was rewatching Good Omens season 1, and when Newt goes into his job as a 'computer engineer', his tie seemed very familiar. Was it intentionally based off of the 4th Doctor's scarf or is this a random coincidence that was completely unintentional?

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dangerousstrawberrypie asked:

Mr. Gaiman, I hope you are having a lovely day and have you considered setting Jon Hamm on fire? I feel like he'd take it fairly well, and as a fellow St. Louis native, he'd be inclined to make a tired joke about how it felt akin to a St. Louis summer, but more pleasant. Do let us know, please and thank you.

Jon Hamm is one of the finest people I know. He’s an excellent actor. He sometimes explains St. Louis sports things that he loves to me, and always kindly assumes that I know nothing about St. Louis sporting things because I’m English and not because I’m utterly sportsblind. He’s a gentleman and a nice person. And I am absolutely not setting him or any of the cast of Good Omens on fire.

Except for David Tennant, obviously.

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sex-dogs-and-sausage-rolls asked:

Recently re-watched S1 of Good Omens and wondered (as I haven't read the book in a long while) if Newton's Dick Turpin joke is in the book, or did Jack Whitehall add that himself?

neil-gaiman answered:

It’s in the book.

Nobody added jokes themselves, except for David and Michael at the end of the scene where Aziraphale decides to do his magic act.

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And (as someone pointed out) Michael McKean’s wonderful Shadwell “Sergeant Pepper” line. That was all his. And so good.

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classic80sgirl asked:

Mr. Gaiman,

May I ask, as a proud Shining Acolyte of the Sacred Flame of Literacy in a Dark and Encroaching Universe, will I get to see at least a glimpse of Aziraphale's wonderful bookshop in Good Omens 2?

neil-gaiman answered:

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I was going to do a Wait and See, but given that you can see the bookshop on the left a lot of people would be within their rights to point out that you’ve already waited and seen. Yes, lots of hot bookshop action: tea will be drunk, and so will cocoa.

honmyoseagull

(All for our boys enjoying tea and cocoa. The ostracism of coffee is saddening, though.)

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Coffee will also be drunk. Just not in the bookshop.

theequeerstrian

Why did you have to say "hot bookshop action" though

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In season 1 the cocoa got cold.