After graduating from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications with a BA in writing and a minor in English Literature, I entered the family business where I wrote a ton of industrial scripts and ad copy and accumulated a great deal of experience in video, film and multimedia production. I also learned a fair bit about the importance of an office with a locking door and a pair of windows that overlook a roof. Happiness is often a handy escape route.
Having done a fair bit of traveling over the years, including living in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and the New Jersery shore, I’ve expanded the palette of my imagination, incorporating a larger resource of scenery, rhythm and language to my ideas and increased my understanding of the human condition. And I’ve learned for myself what I’ve always been told: we’re all essentially the same, yet different in some of the most horrific delightful and interesting ways.
I also spent a lot of time in various music projects, including such local legendary acts as Bumpin’ Uglies, Alewife, and Surrounded By Idiots. After a brief flirtation with a professional solo career, I concentrated on my marketing, production and writing disciplines. Today, I still write, perform and record with SBI, and you can check out our music here or at our MySpace page here.
ScottStories is a running diary of my writing experiences and subsequent efforts to launch my writing career. Perhaps it will be a vehicle with which I’m able to begin and navigate my professional journey, or just something to keep me from going mad. If I’m able to connect with a few scribes out there, or just those lovers of stories, it will have been a valuable tool for internal and external discovery.
Above all, writers write. So perhaps it had to be.
