I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
From Terry Brooks
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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