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"Neil and I had known each other since early 1985. Doing it was our idea, not a publisher's deal."

"I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens. It was fairly easy to keep track of because of the way we sent discs to one another, and because I was Keeper of the Official Master Copy I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens. However, we were on the phone to each other every day, at least once. If you have an idea during a brainstorming session with another guy, whose idea is it? One guy goes and writes 2,000 words after thirty minutes on the phone, what exactly is the process that's happening?

I did most of the physical writing because:

1) I had to. Neil had to keep Sandman going -- I could take time off from the DW;


2) One person has to be overall editor, and do all the stitching and filling and slicing and, as I've said before, it was me by agreement -- if it had been a graphic novel, it would have been Neil taking the chair for exactly the same reasons it was me for a novel;


3) I'm a selfish bastard and tried to write ahead to get to the good bits before Neil.


Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever -- by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. By agreement, I am allowed to say that Agnes Nutter, her life and death, was completely and utterly mine. And Neil proudly claims responsibility for the maggots. Neil's had a major influence on the opening scenes, me on the ending. In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock."

"Yes, the maggot reversal was by me, with a gun to Neil's head (although he understood the reasons, it's just that he likes maggots). There couldn't be blood on Adam's hands, even blood spilled by third parties. No-one should die because he was alive."

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Originally posted by parrotslave:
New Year's resolutions of the demon Crowley and the angelic Aziraphale

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Originally posted by parrotslave:
New Year's resolutions of the demon Crowley and the angelic Aziraphale

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Originally posted by Eldi:

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Originally posted by parrotslave:
New Year's resolutions of the demon Crowley and the angelic Aziraphale

that was funny, now to go and google myself.

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Originally posted by Capt. Crash:
I think it's in Walking with the Dream King, but Neil is talking about the writing of Good Omens and said something to the effect that they both wrote about 90% of the book. I'll look it up when I'm at my parents house next and get back to it.