Hi, My Name is Stephen, and I’m a …
An introduction where I attempt to pigeon hole myself
My name is Stephen Scott.
I am a writer with Illumination.
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, a half-finished degree in Performing Arts, a Graduate Certificate from AIR-TV, and a 3rd place ribbon for backstroke from my Grade 10 swimming carnival.
This is not how I want this introduction to go. I’m going to start again.
Hi, I’m Stephen.
I’m a watcher.
Always have been.
Participation scares me.
As a child I didn’t fit in: scrawny, effeminate, and too smart for my own good.
I also had terrible hand-eye coordination. Terrible at cricket. Ask anyone in Australia — if you can’t bowl or catch — you’re immediately ostracised.
I had an English accent up until kindergarten. A peculiar oddity as we lived in a backwater town in Queensland, Australia. And no-one in my family spoke anything but ocker Aussie.
I was a loner nerd in primary. I’d breeze through exams, not due to photographic…
