Jimmy-James Scott

I was once talking to my brother about literature and his preference at the time was for books that allowed you to escape. I do not share this indulgence. As a reader, I always enjoyed books that made me think. I enjoyed the books that made me ponder my existence. I enjoyed the books that made me ponder life. I enjoyed the books that made me think about humanity and where we have been and the full range of emotions that we experience. I read a bit during my early life. In my late teens, a went into a bookshop with a coworker to whom I had an attraction. She showed me a Charles Dickens hardcover "A Tale of Two Cities" and told me that was where the line came from "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". I bought the book on the spot in an effort to impress her. This started a reading obsession that made me forget about television for the bulk of my early twenties. This love of literature brought me to studying a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English and Linguistics. The girl is long gone but she started me on a love of literature. If you see her, tell her I said "Thank you". Acknowledging how literature made me feel, I wanted to be able to conjure words for others to read. I tried writing in my twenties but everything I wrote felt forced, like I was trying to be the authors that I loved. It wasn't until one day in my early thirties that I wrote "City Living", which was inspired by a bad day at work when I looked at some homeless people and thought to myself, that in a strange way it made sense. This millennial's privileged view of a life of hardship gave an inspiration behind a dark satire that I enjoyed writing and hope that you enjoy/enjoyed reading. My prose is inspired by Ernest Hemingway, Chuck Palahniuk, and Don Watson. Although at one stage I was obsessed with using long words and jargon to impress, I realised at one that it wasn't who I was. Taking 140,000 words to say something that could be said in 70,000 words is simply inefficiency. I also gain inspiration from Jack Kerouac, JD Salinger, Annie Proulx, and Hunter S Thompson. I'm also a lover of the great dystopian novels; "1984" and "A Brave New World". I don't want to write stories strictly for fun or fantasy or escapism. I want to connect with you. I want to make you think. I want to make you feel if I can. Let's be best friends.