One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.