We asked Mr. Mcdonald to respond to some written questions regarding all this. Too, to paraphrase what I read publisher Phyllis Grann said a year or so ago, partly due to technology current and pending, we in this country have lost one, maybe two generations of editors. Writing is a business, in a few ways like any other. I have decided to write. In fact, I have taken the more selfish course.
Writing is more fun and fulfilling than the business of writing.
Too, understand that from maybe 1973 to maybe now I have been more clinically exhausted than not. Disciplined exercise has allowed me to conceal this fact, largely, except maybe from a few people very close to me. When I am working on something, which is almost always, I even lose track of the seasons. I think I am keeping up with business, but then I find I haven't. This was produced by something called Paramount-Universal C.I.C., which I understood at the time was these two studios' joint European earnings they wished to invest in Europe.