{"id":335,"date":"2003-10-02T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=335"},"modified":"2003-10-02T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T23:39:19","slug":"today-is-tom-swales-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/10\/02\/today-is-tom-swales-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Tom Swale's birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I owe my old friend<\/a> a call this afternoon, when it gets to be a Decent Hour in LA. Tom it was who in 1979 or thereabouts read the newly published The Door Into Fire<\/em> and somehow, unaccountably, came to the conclusion that its author might be someone who would like to write animation. And he was right! He and the inimitable Duane Poole <\/a>were my story editors on Scooby and Scrappy-Doo<\/a>, for which they asked me to write some scripts…and with infinite patience they guided me through the process, with the result that I now have sixty or so scripts, various European live-action TV series, and a prime-time live-action project under my belt (presently undergoing its fifth<\/em> rewrite. Thanks loads, guys…).<\/p>\n

Tom has, of course, moved on to (theoretically) deathless fame as one of the two Senior Advisory wizards for the NY metropolitan area in the “Young Wizards” series. But now I see that The Big Cartoon Database<\/a> has done him and Duane a naughty. Do a search in there on “Diane Duane” and one finds that I have been credited with fourteen scripts for the series, whereas I only actually wrote two. I think we can chalk this one up to the dangers of “gang credits”. Still, it seems unfair to my mentors, who (I’m pretty sure) wrote the majority of the others…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I see that a rogue apostrophe has crept into the title of the Gargoyles<\/em> script Peter and I wrote. “I’ll Met By Moonlight?” Pleeeeeeeease!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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