I've got some Destroyer stuff in reserve. Even so, you're right: It will be difficult to get the factory up and running again. Most of that is probably age and the lack of energy that comes along with it. Ten years ago that wasn't an issue but it is now. Ten years from now it'll most likely be an even bigger issue, but I don't even want to think about that. I'm envious of writers who can just keep chugging along for years and years, filling up page after page and publishing book after book. I don't know how they do it. Of course, writers are notorious whiners and everybody knows it. But that doesn't mean we don't have good reason to whine. It's incredibly hard to wring new stuff from an aging brain.
If you want an idea how tough it is, take Michael Crichton as a for instance. The guy put out
one book -- one and only one book -- every couple of years. And for at least one of those books he wasn't exactly using fresh material (
http://jamesmullaney.com/destroyer126.html). Compare that to the 21 in a row I did in five years during my Gold Eagle run. Twenty-one books in five years. I look back now and have no idea how I did that. Still and all, it beats digging ditches or installing floodlights on church steeples, so I should learn to turn off the whine.
Jim
p.s. I remember Parker Lewis. It was kind of a funny show if memory serves, at least for a little while.
