>Which, well, fair enough, and I make an effort to give collaborator
>credit where it's due, but what you can't see from that side of the
>board is that even when they're not working on the material directly,
>the rest of the crew is a support structure that keeps things moving.
>I don't often address the flip side of that, because I don't want to
>come across like I'm trying to lay a guilt trip on people for having
>other stuff to do, but, well, frankly, those people all have other
>stuff to do, and as time goes on they develop more things
>to do and I... well... sort of don't.

(...)

>So yeah. Uh. It's slow going these days, because my posse is far
>away and has its own shit to do, and the miracles of the Internet can
>only make up for so much of that. Online collaborators have always
>been part of the EPU picture, but it remains true that I did my most
>prolific work when I lived practically within arm's reach of a handful
>of people whose names appeared regularly in the credits, and nowadays
>I don't live within arm's reach of anybody. (And those people
>don't live within easy gathering range of each other any more, either,
>so it's not just that I moved to the woods. See previous
>paragraph.)

I just wanted to chime in that having a support network is really important. I lost mine when I left URI (and the OR crew), and my productivity dropped to a trickle... which eventually dried up completely.