series 3 February 2010
Gail Renard is a mine of information and opinion and for this I give much thanks. She’s a writer and understands the leaving of projects and moving on and why it might be heightened on our artificial, showbiz world (though it’s really only a reflection of our ordinary lives, a little turned up). Anyhow she tells me that David Hyde Pierce, after Frasier finished, said that everybody tells you how to get a series, but no one teaches you how to say goodbye to a beloved one. How true.
I may not have seen the worst of the farewells as apparently there has been an exodus each day from the unit base with less and less people to say goodbye to and that would have finished me off altogether. Mind you, I also hear talk of a canteen full of the Series 8 writers throwing out ideas, so let the excitement begin to niggle again, eh?
I am writing myself, that Difficult 8th Novel, and it’s moving along…slowly, but along…
