I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.
Scott BradfieldFor years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions...
Scott BradfieldIn terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.
Scott BradfieldPerhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.
Scott BradfieldI canโt think of a more philosophical time in a personโs life than when they are children. Itโs the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.
Scott BradfieldEvery time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.
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