In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
Pirates have always fascinated me.
Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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