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Felt a bit weird turning down a job offer today from a TV production house I’ve worked with fairly regulary, but it couldn’t be helped. They had some kind of reality show thing happening and while they were looking for writers (Which wasn’t a big deal) they were looking for researcher/interviewer/writers who could take appointments with prospective subjects for the program and do interviews during normal business hours of the work week (Which was a big deal). Since I’m actually at the GameAxis offices from Mondays to Wednesdays, this would have severely affected their production schedule considering how hectic and quickly these things move, and for me to say “Yeah, I know you’re going into the shoot on Tuesday and edit on Wednesday, but if this guy is only available for interviews in the afternoon, I can’t do it ’till Thursday” would have been incredibly unfair to them. Plus it would have given me an ulcer from all the stress worrying over how to squeeze a week’s worth of TV work into two working days.
Oh well, while it’s too bad I couldn’t take the job, it’s not going to really make me cringe with regret over lost opportunities either. The extra money would have been nice, but admittedly, I’m already busy with other writing, like the Maxim stuff that occasionally comes in, the kiddie comic (Of which I have a looming deadline for the 11th, which I’m pretty sure I can make for this next set of stories) the pilot episode for the animated series which is 90+% done, and then there’s Nowhere, a new little 5 pager I want to write called Money-man, (Comic, not short story), a potential new other comic storyline to explore involving (AGAIN, at least for me) ghosts and, oh yeah, wasn’t I writing a novel?