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For the moment, I’m off the treadmill, and I’d like to keep it that way. I’m<br />
going to keep doing this until I can’t, and you guys are a big part of that. I’ve gotten<br />
terrific feedback from you about the first issue, and I’ve got to figure out exactly<br />
what I’m going to do moving forward. The fun part about how I’m doing this right<br />
now is that I’m not beholden to anyone else’s idea of what this can be. For now, there<br />
will be no other writers published here. That’s not the point. I don’t want to edit<br />
someone else’s work or direct it. I just want to focus on trying to do some things of<br />
mine for a while because I’ve spent so much of my adult life working to the<br />
specifications of others.<br />
That’s not to slam anyone. Ain’t It Cool News was one of the formative<br />
experiences of my adult life, and my work with my co-screenwriter Scott Swan is the<br />
vast majority of what I did. HitFix gave me a chance to try something that was mine,<br />
and for a while, I think it worked. The business changed around us, though, and I<br />
can’t blame anyone at HitFix for trying to figure out how to weather those changes.<br />
Obviously, we did not come up with the right answer to that question. Now I’ve got a<br />
very particular picture in my mind of what it is I want to do, and part of the reason<br />
that I actually went ahead and made that first issue of Pulp & Popcorn live is because<br />
there’s nowhere out there that might hire me that looks the way I want for things to<br />
look. There’s no place that would satisfy all the things I want to do as a writer. In<br />
short, I finally came up against it: either I had to create this place, or it simply wasn’t<br />
going to exist.<br />
I’ve gotten several e-mails from people asking to submit writing samples for<br />
P&P. For now, this is going to remain a place that is written solely by me. That’s the<br />
only way I can guarantee that everything I publish is exactly what I want, exactly<br />
how I want. The failures here, they’re going to be my failures. The successes, such as<br />
they are, will also be mine. Whatever this ends up being, it will be that because of the<br />
work I put in, and that’s got to be the way this next venture works for me.<br />
There is a donations form available on the Pulp & Popcorn blog now at my new<br />
80s A! Over website, and if you feel like kicking in a donation for this issue or the<br />
first one, feel free. I could certainly use it.
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