A Quick Update :-)
One of my short stories, Bloodheat, has been published by the awesome Hagelrat over at the Un:Bound Blogzine! 
I was pretty damn chuffed about it (as you could all imagine)!
Not only can you read Bloodheat (and let me know what you think, please), but there’s also plenty of other awesome fiction to be enjoyed. Click here for Bloodheat, and here for the Short Story index.
In other news, I’m busy with some writing exercises:
The first one revolves around creating 6 characters, giving them a backstory, and then fitting them into a plot. I’ve finished the first part of the plot (all 6 characters are done and living), and I’m working on the second part. I’m really enjoying this – it seems that I write better under pressure, but we’ll see what happens with part 2. I’ll keep you updated, of course.
The second exercise involved writing a one-page something. I say ’something’ because what came out of that exercise is damn strange – stranger than anything I’ve written to date, I guess. I’ll post it here soon, and will welcome your thoughts.
Anyway, that’s me for now!
Be EPIC!
November 4, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Dave – its amazing what you have created with these characters.
Jack
November 11, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Bloodheat was very cool! Had a bit of a Steven King atmosphere with a South African taste to it. When will there be more ?!
November 19, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I hate short stories! because when they are awesome then i dont want it to end and it does. Bloodheat was uber awesome! Can not wait to read more of you work Dave.
December 1, 2009 at 8:14 pm
These writing exercises sound cool…I used to run a writers group when I worked in theatre and we did a regular exercise of writing 5 Minute Plays in the course of a workshop session. Then next session we got actors in to perform them…some of the plays even went on to have full productions. But the whole thing was a liberating process…
December 1, 2009 at 8:37 pm
They are very cool, Phil! They forced me to think along lines I hadn’t approached before, and it brought some incredibly weird stuff out (which I am, of course, happy with), but its an ongoing process, so who knows where it’ll end up?
December 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm
There’s a tutor called Ellis Freeman at the London Film School who does a class called Writer’s Gym…calisthenics for the imagination. I thiink that’s what we all need!