Ooof, did I need this one today. Your opening story just happened to me and a co-writer, not with a VIW, but other than that, word for word. Brutal. And exhausting. All that attention for months and months, for a tiny upfront payment that's long gone. All to get to an "eh never mind." We're taking a beat, mourning the project that could've been. And then we'll get together and see what we want to do next. Hopefully we'll make something cool and this will be a distant memory. But right now, it sucks and feels awful and I can't wait for this feeling to go away.
blechhh awful! it really is the most deflating possible way for it to go, IMO! Sounds like you have exactly the right plan: Funeral, Wake, Lick Wounds, then... eventually... Back to Work.
Ooof, did I need this one today. Your opening story just happened to me and a co-writer, not with a VIW, but other than that, word for word. Brutal. And exhausting. All that attention for months and months, for a tiny upfront payment that's long gone. All to get to an "eh never mind." We're taking a beat, mourning the project that could've been. And then we'll get together and see what we want to do next. Hopefully we'll make something cool and this will be a distant memory. But right now, it sucks and feels awful and I can't wait for this feeling to go away.
blechhh awful! it really is the most deflating possible way for it to go, IMO! Sounds like you have exactly the right plan: Funeral, Wake, Lick Wounds, then... eventually... Back to Work.