Birthing a Book

Bonnie: What made you decide to write a book?

Scott: Actually it was because of my big mouth. As a trained singer, I developed muscles which, when not used for some time, can be easily injured. It was late 1982 and I was singing baritone in Mozart's Requiem Mass with the Tacoma Community Choir led by Gene Nelson. The night of the final dress rehearsal, during an exuberant portion of the oratorio, I felt a pull in my groin. In short, I ruptured myself singing.

Bonnie: So how did that lead to a book?

Scott: In 1974, I retired from the military with a 100 percent medical disability after a near fatal motorcycle accident. My 11 years in the Army, both as an enlisted man and later as an officer, provided content for what later became this book. But back to my rupture...

These kinds of injuries radically curtail physical activities. I could no longer ride my bicycle, which at the time was my only transportation. I could only do something requiring no physical activity. I was also a student at the University of Puget Sound (UPS) in Tacoma, WA and on break between semesters.

So, I grabbed my yellow pad and pencil and started writing. I wrote about a man going down hill very fast on a push bike (so called by the Europeans). It wasn't a story that I was searching for. A story has a beginning, middle and end. This was a back story for what would follow. The description started me asking questions about who was riding, why he was riding, and where he was going. In other words, I didn't say, "Today I'll write a book." I just started answering my own questions and the story flowed from my pencil. One idea begot another. And of course, there had to be a woman involved. (smiling)

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