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I have to restructure The Grahams for business reasons (and because I'm a bit preoccupied), meaning I can't guarantee a firm script before this winter and can't really guarantee I'll pursue it at all. This is a personal one, and there are a lot more variables here than with something like Meanwhile (which is so easy to produce it feels like the opposite of work).

So I did something I've never done before and hope never to do again-- I retracted an assignment I'd given when the artist was ready to produce.

He didn't take it super well. He wasn't bitchy about it, but wasn't "comme ci, comme ca" either.

I feel like a louse, and I should. When I got into this field, I noisily proclaimed that I didn't promise what I couldn't deliver. I know that's a little much to expect of yourself, but I think I can at least say this much: I'll never promise an assignment I can't deliver.

Never again.

(Clarification: I didn't make him do work for which he was then not paid. I'd never ever EVER do that, not even if my house burned down. I just told him work was coming and then it wasn't. Which is bad enough.)