So That Explains It

Neil Gaiman on sudden, unpredictable life changes:

Have you ever noticed that your writers have changed? Semi-serious question. You’ll spend six months in a romantic comedy, then you turn around one day and you're in a ghost story or a medical thriller, or you spend a year in a kitchen sink, grittily realistic drama and then, without warning, your life turns into a sitcom...

It’s always sudden. It often happens with a bang. Ah, I think, when that happens to me. New writers...

It makes as much sense as any other explanation, but my God, if I ever get my hands on the bastards who wrote 1997. . . .

Let's not follow that thought. I don't want my characters pursuing me vengefully because I do awful things to them.