Counting Down The Zeroes: Update

Some of you may have seen Sam Juliano's humbling piece at Wonders in the Dark and wondered whether it is indeed true that Counting Down The Zeroes is at an end.


Well....it isn't. Thanks to some fine kicking of the butt from Mr Juliano, his finely measured piece has inspired me to think again about my odyssey of a project. The years 2000 to 2004 have been a blast, with over 150 posts to date - with still a few to publish, sorry about the delay guys but I had a sort of mini-confidence crisis - from up to 100 different writers! That's nothing short of spectacular given the time constraint. We should all be very proud.

However, my initial self imposed tight deadline seems foolhardy to say the least, this is a trait of mine, for some reason I can't seem to get motivated without a stupefyingly daft and unreasonable goal - if, in future, I start bleating on about what seems to be a ridiculous time schedule, please pull me up on it. So with that in mind I've decided to become far more relaxed about the whole project, starting with a break from the enterprise.

Over the next week or so (see, relaxed) I will post the remaining posts for 2004 which includes Rick Olson of Coosa Creek Cinema with his take on 'The LadyKillers', Chuck Williamson's, of Out 1, piece on 'Tony Takitani ' and Britt Parrott of Perhapses reviews David O'Russell's 'I Heart Huckabees'. After that it's a couple of months rest from the whole thing, until the new year, by which time the project will be housed at Counting Down The Zeroes. On it's resurrection, the project will take on a new form and will run like an interactive blog-a-thon but more on that later.


With that I want to say thank you to all of you that have taken part these past couple of months, it's been an unexpected delight, I've made so many new friends, contacts and been introduced to a whole host of extraordinary blogs and writers. The project is what it is simply because of your involvement.

As for me, I'm just looking forward to getting back to writing - I've done diddly squat since the conception of CDtZ's all those months back - and I can't wait to get started.