as i say, my william morris agents felt the same way.n what basis, i do not know, but very fortunate the way this worked out for me. so one thing both my agent and scrivener said though was, look, what have you written before? and, of course, i said i haven't written anything before. and so they said, well, you need a collaborator or a ghost writer. i said, okay, all right. so they found me a ghost writer. and so i talked with him. again, some constrictions here because i couldn't show the ghost writer -- [laughter] so finally, you know, i'm truncating several months of me going through this angst, both my agent and scrivener after i signed the deal said, look, you signed the deal, we gave you, you know, part of your advance. it was adequate. i thought it was a fortune. i mean, in the scheme of things, it wasn't a large -- look, you've got to start writing. you've got to start doing something. so i wrote a couple of, my ghost writer said, well, why don't you just write something. i'd write a chapter, sort of an innocuous chapter like on