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!
Dave de Burgh 
Jack Gilbert
November 4, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Dave – its amazing what you have created with these characters.
Jack
Bennie
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 ?!
Kimmie
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.
Philip Palmer
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…
Dave-Brendon de Burgh
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? 🙂
Philip Palmer
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!