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I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
Arthur Bradford / Writer
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Unusual
Want
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I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.
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Interesting
Trying
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I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.
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People
Strange
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I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.
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Two
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I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.
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Late
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I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.
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Littles
Narrators
Unity
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I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
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Disability
Fit
People
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I was living in a house with 11 dogs and all I thought about was dogs. I never had sex with any of them though.
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Dog
House
Sex
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I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
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Sometimes
Stories
Way
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I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.
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Adults
London
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I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe.
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Dog
Narrators
Titles
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Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.
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School
Stories
Texas
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I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.
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Unconditional Love
Dog
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Thinking
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I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.
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People
Stories
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I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat which got thrown out a window by mistake, but those never made it into the collection.
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Animal
Cat
Mistake
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I'd just like to point out that almost all of these stories in this collection were rejected by some publication at one time or another, some of them have been rejected a lot, in fact. Find people you trust and listen to them.
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Facts
People
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I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.
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Proud
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Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note.
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Character
People
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I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.
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Here And There
Mean
Typewriters
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Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.
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Jobs
Long
Years
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The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have certain mental preoccupations and they keep recurring in my stories.
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Fun
Together
Trying
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I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.
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Typewriters
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I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.
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Men
Eight
Summer
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I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.
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Book
Night
Writing
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